Statement to be furnished in respect of
transfers of immovable property.
269P. 47(1) Notwithstanding
anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, no registering
officer appointed under the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), shall register
any document which purports to transfer any immovable property belonging to any
person unless a statement in duplicate in respect of such transfer, in the
prescribed form and verified in the prescribed manner and setting forth such
particulars as may be prescribed, is furnished to him along with the instrument
of transfer :
48[Provided that the provisions of this
sub-section shall not apply in relation to any document which purports to
transfer any immovable property for an apparent consideration not exceeding 49[fifty] thousand rupees.
Explanation.—For the purposes of
this proviso, “apparent consideration” shall have the meaning assigned to it in
clause (a) of section 269A subject to the modifications that for
the expressions “immovable property transferred” and “instrument of transfer”
occurring in that clause, the expressions “immovable property purported to be
transferred” and “document purporting to transfer such immovable property”
shall, respectively, be substituted.]
(2) The registering officer
shall, at the end of every fortnight, forward to the competent authority,—
(a) one set of the statements received by him
under sub-section (1) during the fortnight ; and
(b) 50a return in the prescribed
form and verified in the prescribed manner and setting forth such particulars
as may be prescribed in respect of documents of the nature referred to in
sub-section (1) which have been registered by him during the fortnight.