(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Registration Act, 1908 (Act 16 of 1908) and the rules made there under as in force in Rajasthan, where the registering officer has, while registering a document or instrument, reasons to believe that the nature of the document or instrument has not been correctly mentioned, he may, either before or after registering such document or instrument, send it, in original, to the Collector for taking action under sub- section (3).
(2) When through mistake or otherwise any instrument which is misclassified and not duly stamped, is registered under the Registration Act, 1908 (Act No. 16 of 1908), the registering officer may call for the original instrument from the party and, after giving the party liable to stamp duty an opportunity of being heard and recording the reasons in writing and furnishing a copy thereof to the party, impound it and on failure to produce such original instrument by the party, a true copy of such instrument taken out from the registration record shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be the original of such instrument and send it to the Collector for taking action under sub-section (3).
(3) On receipt of document or instrument under sub-section (1) or (2), the Collector shall, after giving the parties a reasonable opportunity of being heard, determine the correct nature of the document or instrument and the stamp duty including the penalty at the rate of two percent of the amount of the deficient duty per month or part thereof for the period during which the instrument remained unstamped or insufficiently stamped or twenty five percent of the deficient stamp duty, whichever is higher, but not exceeding two times of the deficient stamp duty, and surcharge if any payable thereon and may require the payment of the stamp duty including penalty and surcharge, if any, so determined or the amount required to make up the same.
(4) Where it appears to a person having by law or consent of parties authority to receive evidence or a person incharge of a public office, during the course of inspection or otherwise, except an officer of a police that a document or an instrument has not been correctly mentioned while registering it, such person shall forth with make a reference to the Collector to determine the correct nature thereof.
(5) The Collector may, suo-motu or on a reference made under subsection(4) or otherwise call for and examine any document or instrument not referred to him under sub-section (1) or (2), from any person referred to in sub-section (4) or the executant or any other person, which has been registered and returned to the executant or any other person for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the correctness with regard to the nature of the document or instrument and if he is satisfied, after giving the parties a reasonable opportunity of being heard, that the nature of document or instrument had not correctly been mentioned or determined, he may determine the correct nature of the document or instrument and the stamp duty, if any, payable thereon together with a penalty at the rate of two percent of the amount of the deficient duty per month or part thereof for the period during which the instrument remained unstamped or insufficiently stamped or twenty five percent of the deficient stamp duty, whichever is higher, but not exceeding two times of the deficient stamp duty, and require payment of stamp duty including penalty, if any, so determined or the amount require to-make up the same.
(6) Where for any reason the original document or instrument called for by the Collector under sub-section (5) is not produced or cannot be produced, he may call for a certified copy of the document or instrument from the registering officer concerned and exercise the power conferred upon him in sub-section (5).