GOVERNMENT OF TAMIL NADU

ABSTRACT

 

Registration Act- Introduction of section 22-A in the Act- Documents opposed to public policy- Refusal for registration- Notified.

COMMERCIAL  TAXES(J2)   DEPARTMENT

G.O.(Ms) No. 150                                                                                                             Date:22.9.2000
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From the Inspector General of Registration, Chennai, letter
No. 2708/C1/95, dt. 21.3.2000.

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ORDER:

            Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act XVI of 1908)  as  inserted by Tamil Nadu Act 48 of 1997 empowers the Government to declare that the registration of any document or class of documents is  opposed  to   public   policy.

            2.  The Government, after careful examination,  have decided to declare that the registration of certain documents which are opposed to public policy.  The Government direct  that  the registering officers shall treat  such of  those documents notified in the appendix to  this order as opposed to public policy and refuse to register  them.

            3.  The Notification appended to this order will be published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extra-ordinary.

            4.  The Works Manager,  Government Central Press, Chennai  is  requested  to  send  to Government for record,  twenty five copies of the
Tamil Nadu Government Gazette  in  which  the  notification  is  published.

(By order of the Governor)

                                                                                                            SUSAN MATHEW,

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT

To

The Inspector General of Registration, Chennai-28.

The Works Manager,  Government Central Press, Chennai-79.

The Secretary to Government of India,  Ministry of Home Affairs,  New Delhi.

The Director ( Judicial ), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India,

 New Delhi.

Secretary to Government, Revenue/ MA&WS/   RD/Housing & Urban

Development/ TDC&RE/ BC&MBC & MW Depts., Chennai-9.

The  Commissioner ,  Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Administration

Department, Chennai-34.

The Secretary , Tamil Nadu Wakf Board, Chennai- 28.

Special Commissioner and Commissioner of Revenue Administration, Chennai-5.

Special Commissioner and Commissioner of Land Administration,             Chennai.5

The Chairman,Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority,            Chennai-8

Commissioner & Director of Survey and Settlement, Chennai-5.

The Commissioner of Municipal Administration, Chennai-5.

The Commissioner of Rural Development, Chennai-15.

Director of Rural Development and Secretary,
            Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna Board, Chennai-15.

The Commissioner of Town & Country Planning, Chennai-2.

The Director of Town Panchayats, Chennai-108.

All District Collectors.

The Accountant General, Chennai-6.

The Accountant General, Chennai-18

The Accountant General, Chennai-35.

 

Copy to::

The Chief Minister's Office, Chennai-9.

Senior P.A. to Minister (Rural Industries & Registration), Chennai-9.

All Departments of Secretariat,  Chennai-9

Commercial Taxes (OP) Department,  Chennai-9.

SF/SCs. 

APPENDIX 

NOTIFICATION

            In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1)  of  section 22-A of the Registration Act,1908  (Central Act XVI of 1908), the Governor of Tamil Nadu hereby declares the following documents as opposed to public   policy,  namely : -

(1)    Any  instrument  relating  to,-

(i)                 conveyance  of  properties belonging to the  Government or  the  local  bodies such as the   Chennai   Metropolitan   Development  Authority, or Corporations, or Municipalities, or  Town   Panchayats,   or    Panchayat  Unions,   or   Village   Panchayats ;  or

(ii)               conveyance of properties belonging to any religious institutions including temples, mutts, or specific endowments managed by the Hereditary Trustees /  Non-hereditary  Trustees  appointed to any religious institution under a Scheme settled or deemed to have been settled under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious  and  Charitable Endowments  Act, 1959 (Tamil Nadu Act  22 of 1959) and mutts and temples including specific endowments attached to such of those temples managed by mutts;  or

(iii)             conveyance of properties  assigned to,  or held by

(a)   the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board established
under section  3 of the  Tamil  Nadu  Bhoodan  Yagna Act,  1958   (Tamil Nadu Act XV of 1958) ;   or

(b)    the Tamil Nadu Wakf Board,

unless a sealed No Objection Certificate issued by the competent authority as provided under the relevant Act or the rules framed thereunder for this purpose and in the absence of any such provision in any relevant Act or in the rules framed thereunder, authority so authorised by the Government, to the effect that such registration is not in contravention of the provisions of the respective Act, is produced before the registering officer ;

(2)    conveyance of   lands, converted  as   house sites without the approved layouts unless a No Objection Certificate issued by the authority concerned of such local bodies, namely, Corporations, or Municipalities, or Town Panchayats, Panchayat Unions, or Village Panchayats or Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority is produced before the registering officer ;

(3)     cancellation of sale deeds without the express consent  of  the  parties  to  the  documents.           

                                                                                                   SUSAN MATHEW,

SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.