Stalin launces enforcement of amended Registration Act
The State government on Thursday launched the enforcement of the amended Registration Act empowering the Tamil Nadu registration department to invalidate bogus registrations, impersonations in registration and bogus documents.
Chief Minister M K Stalin inaugurated it by handing over orders for the scrapped documents to five rightful owners of properties at the state secretariat on Wednesday.
An amendment Bill passed by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in September 2021 to empower the State Registration Department to invalidate documents registered using fake reasons like bogus documents and impersonation was assented by the President on September 6, 2022
Pre-amendment, as per the Registration Act of 1908, a sub registrar or official of the registration department did not have the authority to cancel bogus documents, forcing affected parties to move the courts. Inclusion of clauses 22 (B) to the 1908 Act last September empowers registering officers to cancel bogus documents and registration of legally banned documents, while section 77 (A) of the amended Act authorizes district registrars to order the cancellation of documents, if they are found to be bogus consequent upon an inquiry with the petitioner and counter petitioner on the basis of a complaint.
An appeal can be preferred on the order of the district registrar within a month. The amendment also provides for initiating criminal proceedings (amounting to imprisonment) against such registration department officials and parties intentionally registering bogus documents. Through the amendment, legal measures have been taken to completely eradicate bogus registrations, a statement issued by the TN government said.