Registration Act, 1908
35. Procedure on admission and denial of execution
respectively
(1)(a) If all the persons executing the document appear
personally before the registering officer and are personally known to him, or
if he be otherwise satisfied that they are the persons they represent
themselves to be, and if they all admit the execution of the document, or
(b) If in the case of any person appearing by
a representative, assignee or agent, such representative, assignee or agent
admits the execution, or
(c) If the person executing the document is
dead, and his representative or assignee appears before the registering officer
and admits the execution, the registering officer shall register the document as
directed in sections 58 to 61, inclusive.
(2) The registering officer may, in order to satisfy himself
that the persons appearing before him are the persons they represent themselves
to be, or for any other purpose contemplated by this Act, examine any one
present in his office.
(3)(a) If any person by whom the document purports to be
executed denies its execution, or
(b) if any such person appears to the
registering officer to be a minor, an idiot or a lunatic, or
(c) if any person by whom the document purports
to be executed is dead, and his representative or assignee denies its
execution, the registering officer shall refuse to register the document as to
the person so denying, appearing or dead:
PROVIDED that, where such officer is a Registrar, he
shall follow the procedure prescribed in Part XII:
28[PROVIDED FURTHERthat the State Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, declare that any Sub-Registrar named in
the notification shall, in respect of documents the execution of which is denied,
be deemed to be a Registrar for the purposes of this sub-section and of Part
XII. ]