Inspection and copies of such documents

Section 91 of the Registration Act, 1908 deals with inspection and copies of such documents. ] Subject to such rules and the previous payment of such fees as the [ [State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, prescribes in this behalf], all documents and maps mentioned in section 90, clauses (a), (b), (c), and (e), and all registers of the documents mentioned in clause (d), s The Act came into force on 01 Jan 1909.

¹[(1)] Subject to such rules and the previous payment of such fees as the ²[ ³[State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, prescribes in this behalf], all documents and maps mentioned in section 90, clauses (a), (b), (c), and (e), and all registers of the documents mentioned in clause (d), shall be open to the inspection of any person applying to inspect the same, and, subject as aforesaid, copies of such documents shall be given to all persons applying for such copies.

⁴[(2) Every rule prescribed under this sub-section or made under section 69 shall be laid, as soon as it is made, before the State Legislature.]

STATE AMENDMENTS

Tripura.--

Insertion of new section 91A.--After section 91 of the principal Act, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:--

91-A.

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for all purposes connected with the pasting of true copies of documents in the appropriate Books under this Act.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for--

(a) the furnishing of true copies of documents by the person presenting the document for registration;

(b) the manner in which true copies of documents shall be prepared;

(c) the manner in which the true copies of documents shall be compared with the original documents after the same are admitted to registration ; and

(d) the manner of pasting such copies.

(3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly of Tripura, while it is in session for a total period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the successive sessions in which it is so laid or the successive sessions aforesaid, the Legislative Assembly agrees in making any modification in the rule or the Legislative Assembly agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be or no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

[Vide Tripura Act 7 of 1982, s. 16].

Section 91, The Registration Act, 1908 (Act 16 of 1908).