Registration Act, 1908
23A. Re-registration of certain documents
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Act,
if in any case a document requiring registration has been accepted for
registration by a Registrar or Sub-Registrar from a person not duly empowered
to present the same, and has been registered, any person claiming under such
document may, within four months from his first becoming aware that the
registration of such document is invalid, present such document or cause the
same to be presented, in accordance with the provisions of Part VI for
re-registration in the office of the Registrar of the district in which the
document was originally registered; and upon the Registrar being satisfied that
the document was so accepted for registration from a person not duly empowered
to present the same, he shall proceed to the re-registration of the document as
if it has not been previously registered, and as if such presentation for
re-registration was a presentation for registration made within the time
allowed therefor under Part IV, and all the provisions of this Act, as to
registration of documents, shall apply to such re-registration; and such
document, if duly re-registered in accordance with the provisions of this
section, shall be deemed to have been duly registered for all purposes from the
date of its original registration:
PROVIDED that, within three months from the twelfth day
of September, 1917, any person claiming under a document to which this section
applies may present the same or cause the same to be presented for re-registration
in accordance with this section, whatever may have been the time when he first
became aware that the registration of the document was invalid.]