Registration Act,1908
Act No : 16
Section :
Procedure on admission and denial of execution respectively.
35. Procedure on admission and denial of execution respectively.-(1) (a) If all the persons executing the document appear personallybefore the registering officer and are personally known to him, or ifhe be otherwise satisfied that they are the persons they representthemselves 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,assign or agent, such representative, assign or agent admits theexecution, or (c) if the person executing the document is dead, and hisrepresentative or assign appears before the registering officer andadmits the execution, the registering officer shall register the document as directedin section 58 to 61, inclusive. (2) The registering officer may, in order to satisfy himself thatthe persons appearing before him are the persons they representthemselves 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 beexecuted denies its execution, or22 (b) if any such person appears to the registering officer to be aminor, an idiot or a lunatic, or (c) If any person by whom the document purports to be executed isdead, and his representative or assign denies its execution, the registering officer shall refuse to register the document asto the person so denying, appearing or dead: Provided that, where such officer is a Registrar, he shall followthe procedure prescribed in Part XII: 1*[Provided further that the State Government may, bynotification in the Official Gazette, declare that any Sub-Registrarnamed in the notification shall, in respect of documents the executionof which is denied, be deemed to be a Registrar for the purposes ofthis sub-section and Part XII.]
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