Registration Act, 1908 — section 69

69. Power of Inspector-General to superintend registration officers and make rules..—(1) The Inspector-General shall exercise a general superintendence over all the registration offices in the territories under the 1[Provincial Government], and shall have power from time to time to make rules2 consistent with this Act

(a)providing for the safe custody of books, papers and documents 3* * *;

(b)declaring what languages shall be deemed to be commonly used in each district;

(c)declaring what territorial divisions shall be recognized under section 21 ;

(d)regulating the amount of fines imposed under sections 25 and 34, respectively;

(e)regulating the exercise of the discretion reposed in the registering officer by section 63 ;

(f)regulating the form in which registering officers are to make memoranda of documents;

(g)regulating the authentication by Registrars and Sub-Registrars of the books kept in their respective offices under section 51 ;

(h)declaring the particulars to be contained in Indexes Nos. I, II, III and IV, respectively;

(i)declaring the holidays that shall be observed in the registration­offices ; and

(j)generally, regulating the proceedings of the Registrars and Sub-Registrars.

(2)The rules so made shall be submitted to the l[Provincial Government] for approval, and, after they have been approved, they shall be published in the official Gazette, and on publication shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.