Section 26: Documents executed out of India.

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

When a document purporting to have been executed by all or any of the parties out of [India] is not presented for registration till after the expiration of the time hereinbefore prescribed in that behalf, the registering officer, if satisfied--

(a) that the instrument was so executed, and

(b) that it has been presented for registration within four months after its arrival in [India],

may, on payment of the proper registration-fee accept such document for registration.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Registration Act, 1908
Section	26
Marginal note	Documents executed out of India.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	3

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 3 of 1951. . Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "the State".

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