REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2022
ACT NO. XXXVIII OF 2022
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An Act further to amend Registration Act, 1908
[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part-I, 31st December, 2022]
No. F. 23(31)/2022-Legis., dated 30.12.2022.–The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on the 29th December, 2022 is hereby published for general information:-
WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Registration Act, 1908 (XVI of 1908) in its application to the extent of Islamabad Capital Territory, for the purposes hereinafter appearing:
It is hereby enacted as follows:–
1. Short title, extent and commencement.–(1) This Act may be called the Registration (Amendment) Act, 2022.
(2) It shall extend to the Islamabad Capital Territory.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of Section 17, Act XVI of 1908.–In the Registration Act, 1908 (XVI of 1908), in Section 17,–
(i) in sub-section (1), after clause (b), the following new clause shall be inserted, namely:–
“(ba) an instrument which grants power to an attorney or which constitutes an agreement to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, by way of sale, any right, title or interest of the value of one hundred rupees and upward, to or in immovable property;”
(ii) in sub-section (2), in clause (v), before the semicolon “;” occurring at the end, the following shall be inserted, namely:–
“except a document which grants power to an attorney or is an agreement to sell any right, title or interest of the said value in immovable property”.
