Section 5: Districts and sub-districts.

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

(1) For the purposes of this Act, the [State Government] shall form districts and sub-districts, and shall prescribe, and may alter, the limits of such districts and sub-districts.

(2) The districts and sub-districts formed under this section, together with the limits thereof, and every alternation of such limits, shall be notified in the [Official Gazette].

(3) Every such alternation shall take effect on such day after the date of the notification as is therein mentioned

Where this provision sits

Act	The Registration Act, 1908
Section	5
Marginal note	Districts and sub-districts.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	2

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. . Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "Provincial Government".
substituted. . Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Official Gazette"

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