THE REGISTRATION (KARNATAKA AMENDMENT) АСТ, 2025 (Received the assent of the President on the 22nd day of July, 2025)
An Act further to amend the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908) in its application to the State of Karnataka.
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Registration Act 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908) in its application to the State of Karnataka for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State legislature in the Seventy Sixth year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Registration (Karnataka Amendment) Act, 2025.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Amendment of section 17.- In the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908) (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), in section 17,-
(i) in sub-section (1), after clause (e), before the proviso, the following shall be inserted, namely:-
"(f) power of attorney authorizing transfer of immovable property with or without consideration:"
(ii) in sub-section (2), clause (vii) and the entries relating thereto shall be omitted."
3. Amendment of section 33. In the Principal Act, in section 33, in sub-section (4),-
(i) for the words "may be proved", the words "shall be proved" shall be substituted; and
(ii) after sub-section (4) as so amended, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-
"Provided that a proof to the effect that the person executing the power of attorney is alive shall be produced as specified in the rules made under this Act."
4. Amendment of Section 89.- In the Principal Act, in section 89, after sub-section (4), the following shall be inserted, namely:-
"(5) The documents executed by the Government Officers or certain public functionaries as notified under section 88, shall send the documents electronically to the Registering Officer within whose jurisdiction, the whole or any part of the immovable property comprised in the documents is situated, and such officer shall file the said document electronically in his appropriate Book number and shall get the same preserved electronically."
By Order and in the name of the Governor of Karnataka,
G. SRIDHAR
Secretary to Government Department of Parliamentary Affairs and Legislation
