Registration Act, 1908
90. Exemption of certain documents executed by or in favor
of government
(1) Nothing contained in this Act or in the Indian Registration
Act, 1877, or in the Indian Registration Act, 1871, or in any Act thereby
repealed, shall be deemed to require, or to have any time required, the
registration of any of the following documents or maps, namely:-
(a) documents issued, received or attested by
any officer engaged in making a settlement or revision or settlement of
land-revenue, and which form part of the records of such settlement; or
(b) documents and maps issued, received or
authenticated by any officer engaged on behalf of government in making or
revising the survey of any land, and which form part of the record of such
survey; or
(c) documents which, under any law for the
time being in force, are filed periodically in any revenue-office by patwaris
or other officers charged with the preparation of village records; or
(d) sanads, inam, title-deeds and other
documents purporting to be or to evidence grants or assignments by government
of land or of any interest in land; or
(e) notice given under section 74 or section
76 of the Bombay Land-Revenue Code, 1879, or relinquishment of occupancy by
occupants, or of alienated land by holders of such land.
(2) All such documents and maps shall, for the purposes of
sections 48 and 49, be deemed to have been and to be registered in accordance
with the provisions of this Act.