Registration Act, 1908 — section 90

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Registration Act, 1877 (III of 1877), or in the Indian Registration Act, 1871 (VIII of 1871), or in any Act thereby repealed, shall be deemed to require, or to have at any time required, the registration of any of the following documents or maps, namely :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 form part of the records of such settlement; or

(b)documents and maps issued, received or authenticated by any officer engaged on behalf of Government in making or revising 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 filed periodically in any revenue-office by patwaris or other officers charged 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 1[Sind Land Revenue Code, 1879 (Sind Act V of 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 sections 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.— Subject to such rules and the previous payment of such fees as the 2[Provincial Government] 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 aforesaid, copies of such documents shall be given to all persons applying for such copies. 92. [Burmese registration rules confirmed.] Rep. by A. O., 1937. 93. [Repeals.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (I of 1938), s. 2 and Schedule. THE SCHEDULE.—[REPEAL OF ENACTMENTS.] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (I of 1938), s. 2 and Schedule. 1 Subs. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Ordinance, 1981 (27 of 1981), s. 3 and Second Sch., for “Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879”. 2 Subs. by A. O., 1937, for “L. G.”.