86. Registering officer not liable for thing bonafide done or refused in his official capacity. No registering officer shall be liable to any suit, claim or demand by reaons of anything in good faith done or refused in his official cpacity.

87. Nothing so done invalidated by defect in appointment or procedure - Nothing done in good faith pursuant to this Act or any Act hereby repealed, by any registering officer, shall be deemed invalid merely by reason of any defect in his appointment or procedure.

88. Registration of documents executed by Government officers or certain public functionaries. - (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, it shall not be necessary for -

(a) any officer of Government or
(b) any administrator - General, Official Trustee or Official assignee ; or
(c) the Sheriff, receiver or Registrar of High Court ; or
(d) the holder for the time being of such other public office as may be specified in a notification in the official gazette issued in that behalf by the State Government.
to appear in person or by agent at any registration office in any proceeding connected with the registration of any instrument executed by him or in his favour , in his official capacity, or to sign as provided in section 58.

(2) Any instrument executed by or in favour of an officer of Government or any other person referred to in sub-section (1) may be presented for registration in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made under section 69.

(3) The registering officer to whom any instrument is presented for registration under this section may, if he thinks fit, refer to any Secretary to Government or to such officer of Government or other person referred to in sub-section (1) for information respecting the same and, on being satisfied of the execution thereof, shall register the instrument.

89. Copies of certain orders, certificates and instruments to be sent to registering officer and filed. - (1) Every officer granting a loan under the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883, shall send a copy of his order to the registering officer within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the land to be improved or of the land to be granted as collateral security, is situate and such registering officer shall file the copy in his Book No.1.

(2) Every Court granting a certificate of sale of immovable property under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, shall send a copy of such certificate to the registering officer within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the immovable property comprised in such certificate is situate, and such officer shall file the copy in his Book No.1

(3) Every officer granting a loan under the Agriculturists Loans Act, 1884, shall send a copy of any instrument whereby immovable property is mortgaged for the purpose of secruing the repayment of the loan, and if any such property is mortgated for the same purpose in the order granting the lona, a copy also of that order, to the registering officer within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the property so mortgaged is situate, and such registering officer shall file the copy or copies, as the case may be, in his Book No.1

(4) Every Revenue Officer granting a certificate of sale to the purchaser of immovable property sold by public auction shall send a copy of the certificate to the registering officer within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the property comprised in the certificate is situate, and such officer shall file the copy in his Book No.1

Exemption from Act

90. Exemption of certain documents executed by or in favour 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 there by repealed shall be deemed to require, or to have at 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 of settlement of land-revenue, and which from part of the records of such settlements; or

(b) documents and maps issued, received or authenticated by any officer engaged on behald of Government in making or revisting 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 filled periodically in any revenue office by patwaries or other officers charges 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) notices given under section 74 or section 76 of the Bombay Land Revenue code, 1879, of 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 section 48 and 49, be deemed to have been and to be registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

91. Inspection and copies of such documents. - 1[(1)] Subject to such rules and the previous of such fees as the 1[State Government, by notification in the official Gazette, prescribes in this behalf], all documents and maps mentioned in section 90, clauses (a), (b), (c) and (e), and all registers of the documents mentioned in clause (d), shall be open to the inspection of any person applying to inspect the same, and subject as aforesain, copies of such documents shall be given to all persons applying for such copies.

1[(2) Every rule prescribed under this section or made under section 69 shall be laid,as soon as it is made, before the State Legislature.]

92. ( * * *. ) omitted by A.O. 1937.

93. ( * * * ) Repealed by Act of 1938.

2[Repeal.- (1) The Acts specified in the Schedule as in force in the respective areas of the Sate mentioned against each enactment are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the said Schedule.

(2) As from the date appointed under sub-section (3) of section 1, the amendaments made by the enactments repealed by sub-section (1) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the repealed enactments) shall cease to continue and shall be omitted from the Registration Act. 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908) (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the principal Act)], and such of the provisions thereof as were affected by the repealed enactments shall stand revived to the extent to which they would have otherwise contined in operation but for the passing of the repealed enactments; and after such revival the amendment made to the principal Act by this Act shall become operative :

Provided that in respect of provisions which cease to continue by virtue of this section, the provisions of section 6 of the Karnataka General Clauses Act, 1899 (Karnataka Act 3 of 1899), shall be applicable as if such provisions were enactments repealed by a Karnataka Act and in respect of provisions which cease to continue but are re-enacted by this Act, the provisions of sections 8 and 24 of the said Karnataka General Clauses Act, 1899 shall be applicable as if the said provisions had been repealed but re-enacted by a Karnataka Act.

Note. 1. The delegated Legislation provisions (Amendment) Act 1983 (Act No. 20 of 1983). Published in Gazette in

Gazette of India, 1st September 1983. Part II-S-1 Ext. P 1 (No. 23).

2. Inserted by Registration (Karnataka Amendment) Act 1976 with effect from 25th October 1976.

SCHEDULE
(See Section 19)
S.I. Year No. of Name of Enactment Area where Extent
No. of Enact- the enact- of
Enact- ment ment is repeal
ment in force

1. 1930 XVII The Indian Registration Belguam Whole
(Bombay Amendment) Area Act, 1930

2. 1933 XVIII The Indian Registration Belguam Whole
(Bombay Amendment) Area Act 1933.

3. 1938 XXIV The Indian Registration Belguam Section 3
(Bombay Amendment) Area to 8 of the Act, 1938 Act.

1[Repeal. - Sections 2, 4 to 12 (both inclusive), section 15, section 18 of the Registration (Karnataka Amendment) Act, 1976 (Karnataka Act 55 of 1976) are hereby repealed]
Note. 1. Inserted by the Registration (Karnataka Amendment) Act, 1984 (Karnataka Act No. 41 of 1984) Section 6.