Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002
20. Central
Registry.-
1.
The
Central Government may, by notification, set up or cause to be set up from such
date as it may specify in such notification, a registry to be known as the
Central Registry with its own seal for the purposes of registration of transaction
of securitisation and reconstruction of financial assets and creation of
security interest under this Act.
2.
The
head office of the Central Registry shall be at such place as the Central
Government may specify and for the purpose of facilitating registration of
transactions referred to in sub-section (1), there may be established at such
other places as the Central Government may think fit, branch offices of the
Central Registry.
3.
The
Central Government may, by notification, define the territorial limits within
which an office of the Central Registry may exercise its functions.
4.
The
provisions of this Act pertaining to the Central Registry shall be in addition
to and not in derogation of any of the provisions contained in the Registration
Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Merchant
Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), the Motor
Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988) and the Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000) or any
other law requiring registration of charges and shall not affect the priority
of charges or validity thereof under those Acts or laws.