Question: Which kinds of Documents is registration compulsory?

Answer:           The Provision of Section 17 of the Registration Act, the following documents are required to be registered compulsorily, if the property which they relate is situate in a district in which and if they have been executed on or after the date on which Act.

Ø  Instrument of gifts of immovable property

Ø  Other non-testamentary instrument which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish whether in present or in future, any title or interest, whether vested or contingent of the value of Rs.100 and upwards to or immovable property

Ø  Non-testamentary instrument which acknowledge the receipt or payment of any consideration on account of the creation, delegation, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest.

Ø  Lease of immovable property from year to year or from any term exceeding one year or reserving a yearly rent.

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