Section 12: Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office.

The Registration Act, 1908Central Act · Act 16 of 1908

When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Registrar of the district appoints in this behalf shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence, or until [the vacancy is filled up].

STATE AMENDMENT

Karnataka

Amendment of section 12.--In section 12, after the word "whom" the words "the Inspector-General of Registration or" shall be inserted.]

[Vide Karnataka Act 32 of 2001, s. 3]

Where this provision sits

Act	The Registration Act, 1908
Section	12
Marginal note	Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	1

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Act 4 of 1914. . Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for "the Local Government fills up the vacancy".

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