Registration Act : Description of houses and land by reference to Government maps orsurveys. Indian

Registration Act,1908

Act No : 16

Section : Description of houses and land by reference to Government maps orsurveys.

22. Description of houses and land by reference to Governmentmaps or surveys.-(1) Where it is, in the opinion of the StateGovernment, practicable to describe houses, not being houses in towns,and lands by reference to a government map or survey, the StateGovernment may, by rule made under this Act, require that such housesand lands as aforesaid shall, for the purposes of section 21, be sodescribed. (2) Save as otherwise provided by any rule made under sub-section(1), failure to comply with the provisions of section 21, sub-16section (2) or sub-section (3), shall not disentitle a document to beregistered if the description of the property to which it relates issufficient to identify that property.