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ARUNACHAL PRADESH REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2007

ARUNACHAL PRADESH REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2007

ARUNACHAL PRADESH REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) RULES, 2007

PREAMBLE

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 78 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Act No. 16 of 1908), the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh is pleased to amend the Arunachal Pradesh Registration Rules, 1993, notified vide No. Tax-7/77 dated 18th March, 1993, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such amendment, as under namely:

Rule - 1.

These Rules may be called the Arunachal Pradesh Registration (Amendment) Rules, 2007.

Rule - 2.

They shall extend to whole of Arunachal Pradesh.

Rule - 3.

They shall come into force with immediate effect.

Rule - 4.

(i)       Omission of sub-rule (b) and (e) of Rule 2: In the Arunachal Pradesh Registration Rules, 1993 (hereinafter referred to as Principal Rules), the sub-rule (b) and (e) of Rule 2, shall be omitted.

 

(ii)      Amendment of sub-rule (f) of Rule 2: In the Principal Rules for sub-rule (f) of rule 2, the following shall be substituted, namely "(f) "Section" means section of the Registration Act, 1908 (Act No. 16 of 1908).

 

(iii)     Addition of sub-rules: In the Principal Rules, after sub-rule (f) of Rule 2, the following shall be added, namely:

"(g) "Ordinary fees" means fee of the registration of documents regulated on an advalorem scale and calculated according to value of right, title and interest affected.

(h) "Conveyance" means an instrument (document) whereby property, movable or immovable is transferred by way of sale or otherwise.

(i) "Re-conveyance" means mortgage by Conditional Sale or an instrument where re-conveyance of property is necessary optional.

(j) "Further Charge" means an instrument imposing a further charge on mortgage property".

Rule - 5.Amendment of Table of fees.

In the Principal Rules, for the heading "TABLE OF FEES" the following shall be substituted, namely:

I-ORDINARY FEES

The fees of the registration of documents described below are regulated on an advalorem scale and calculated according to the value of right, title and interest affected.

Description of Property: Conveyance and re- conveyances, bills of sale, deeds of gift or dowers settlement, deeds of partition, leases, deeds of mortgage or instruments of further charge, bonds of all kinds including indemnity and security bonds, assignments of any interest secured by a bond or mortgage deed, policies of insurance, bills of exchange and promissory notes and generally all other documents, viz. as acknowledgment or ordinary receipts for money received, certificates of sale, award directing a partition, declaration of trust of the nature of settlement, deeds of exchange of property, transfer of lease for a consideration, assignment by a partner of his share and interest of his co-partner on dissolution of partnership for a consideration, etc. of the nature of those here in mentioned.

TABLE OF ADVALOREM SCALE

Sl. No.

Description etc.

Fees payable

1.

(i) UptoRs. 1000

: Rs. 50

 

(ii) Rs. 1001 to Rs. 10,000

: Rs. 50 + 1.5%

 

(iii) Rs. 10,001 to Rs. 1,00,000

: 1%

 

(iv) Rs. 1,00,001 to Rs. 3,00,000

: 0.75%

 

(v) Rs. 3,00,000 to 5,00,000

1.%

 

(vi) Rs. 5,00,000 and above

: 1.5%

Provided that in the cases where any consideration is expressed, the consideration, in the case of periodical payment other than leases and annuities, the amount payable of one year in addition to any fine or premium or money advanced, in the case of bonds and mortgages, the amount to be secured, and in case of a deed or partition, the value of the separated share or shares on which stamp duty has been paid, shall be taken to be the value of the right, title or interest affected;

2. In the case of a lease.

 

(a) where by such lease of rent, the rent is fixed and no fine or premium is paid or delivered and no money advanced, if lease granted:

The registration fees is assessed on

 

(i) for a period less than one year

The total sum payable under the lease

 

(ii) for a specified period of one year or more

The average annual rental;

 

(iii) for an indefinite period.

the average annual rental which would be payable for the first ten years if the lease continued so long;

 

(iv) in perpetuity

one fifth of the whole amount of rent which would be payable in respect of the first fifty years of the lease;

 

(b) where such lease is granted for a fine or premium or for money advanced where no rent is reserved.

the amount of such fine, premium or money advanced.

 

(c) when such lease is granted for a fine or premium or money advanced in addition to rent reserved

the aggregate amount of such fine, premium or advance in addition to the fee which would have been payable in such lease under Serial 2(a) above, if no fine premium or advance had been paid or delivered.

3. In the Case of Annuity Bonds.

 

(a) where the sum is payable for a definite period, so that the total amount to be paid can be previously ascertained.

such total amount;

 

(b) where the sum is payable in perpetuity or for an indefinite time not terminable with any like on being at the date of bond will or such annuity bond.

the total amount which, according to the terms of such annuity may be payable during the period of twenty years calculated from the date on which the first payment becomes due

 

(c) where the sum is payable for an indefinite time terminable with any like on being at the date of such a annuity bond.

the maximum amount which will, or may be payable as aforesaid during the period of twenty years calculated from the date on which the first payment becomes due.

4.

That the registration fees leviable upon a document purporting to give collateral or auxiliary or additional, or substituted security or security by way of further assurance, where the principal or primary mortgage is proved to the satisfaction of the registering officer to have been duly registered, shall be the same as for the Principal or primary mortgage if the same dose not exceed Rs. 1000 otherwise it shall be.

Rs. 50.00

5.

That if no consideration, rent or other value be expressed in the document, the amount payable shall be in every case.

Rs. 100.00

6.

That if a lease given to any raiyat, and the Kabuliyat or counterpart of such lease executed by such raiyat, be brought for registration at the same time, the fees chargeable in respect of the two documents shall not be greater than the fee which would have been charged upon the lease alone.

Rs. 100.00

NOTE: (i) In the case an agricultural lease, when the kabuliyat under Serial 6 above is registered without the payment of fees, no fees under Serial 14(a) and (b) be charged in respect of such kabuliyat. But if a visit has to be paid or a commission issued in respect of such Kabuliyat, the fees prescribed under Serial 19 or 20 should be levied, and if the kabuliyat is unclaimed for more than one month from the date of completion, the fee chargeable under Serial 25 should be realized.

(ii) It is immaterial who actually pays the single fee due on account of the registration of a Patta and Kabuliyat under Serial 6 but it will be charged half in the lessor and half to the lessee. It is the desire of the State Government that the provision of Serial 6 should be widely known throughout the country. Sub-Registrars are responsible for specially drawing the attention of raiyat and other to paragraph one of the broad sheet of stamp duty on agricultural leases.

(iii) A raiyat for the purposes of Serial 6 is an actual cultivator of the ground entitled to receive his lease should be prima facie a raiyati lease, in order to entitled to the benefit under Serial 6 above.

7.    The fee on any instrument comprising or relating to several distinct matters be the aggregate of the fees with which separate instruments, each comprising or relating to the one of such matters, would be chargeable.

8.    An instrument so framed as to come within two or more descriptions of the documents enumerated shall, when the fees chargeable thereunder are different be charged with the highest of such fees.

 

NOTE: (1) Separate fees under Serial I are not leviable on the values of the individual interest of the parties to a deed but are calculated on the total value of the interest effected by the document.

 

 

 

(2) The fee for the registration of a separate instrument acknowledging the receipt or payment of any sum of money, whether as consideration on account of any deed of sale or mortgage, or as rent on account of any lease or other value expressed in any document shall be calculated ac cording to the amount received on the scale prescribed in the foregoing Serial numbers, provided that, if any instrument referring to the same transaction has already been registered, the fee shall not exceed-

Rs. 10.00

9.

The fee to be paid:-

 

 

(a) for the deposit of a sealed cover containing a will shall be

Rs. 30.00

 

(b) for opening such cover in addition to the cost of copying the contents which shall be charged according to the advalorem scale laid down in this table for the granting of certified copies.

Rs. 30.00

 

(c) for the registration of a will or authority to adopt when presented open or revocation or cancellation of will.

Rs. 30.00

 

(d) for withdrawal of a sealed cover containing a will

Rs. 30.00

 

Explanation:- When a will is forwarded to any Court under section 46 of the Act, it shall be accompanied by a memorandum of the fee for opening the cover and of the charges for copying and it shall be the duty of the Court to levy such fee and charges and remit them to the Registrar.

 

10.

The fee for the registration of a certified copy of a decree or order of a court shall be

Rs. 20.00

11.

The fee for the registration of an agreement for personal service shall be

Rs. 15.00

12.

(a) The fee for the registration of a document whereby rent remuneration or hire is paid partly in money and partly in kind and the money value of the portion payable in kind is not expressed and

Rs. 15.00

 

(b) of any document of a description not mentioned above shall be

 

Rs. 15.00

13.

The following documents (other than cancellation of will) registration fee as under:-

 

 

(1) Release

Rs. 20.00

 

(2) Surrender of lease

Rs. 20.00

 

(3) Revocation of Trust and Settlement

Rs. 20.00

 

(4) Partnership Deed

 

 

(a) Where the capital expressed in the deed

Rs. 5.00

 

(b) Where the capital is not expressed in the deed.

Rs. 500.00

 

(5) Divorce and agreement

Rs. 20.00

 

(6) Dissolution of partnership

 

 

(a) Where the capital was uptoRs. 5000

Rs. 10.00

 

(b) Where the capital was exceeding Rs. 5000 but does not exceed Rs. 10,000

Rs. 20.00

 

(c) Where the capital was exceeding Rs. 10,000 but not exceeding Rs. 25,000

Rs. 30.00

 

(d) Where the capital was exceeding Rs. 25,000 but not exceeding Rs. 50.000

Rs. 40.00

 

(e) Where the capital was exceeding Rs. 50.000 or capital was not expressed in the original deed.

Rs. 50.00

14.

Fee payable for inspecting or searching the indexes and the registers, etc. shall be as follows:-

 

 

(a) for the 1st year, for each entry of the name of persons or property contained in and in respect of each document, for which inspection of search of the index of a specified office is made.

Rs. 5.00

 

(b) for every additional year as aforesaid

Rs. 3.00

 

(c) for inspection of copy of each document in register book I (including files of copy memorandum and sale certificate) or indexes relating to Book I or for search of copy of each document in Register Book No. III or IV or search of inspection of any other books or register for any particular year.

Rs. 5.00

Provided that:-

 

(i) No fee for search or inspection of the indexes of any one office in respect of any one name of person or property contained in respect of each document shall exceed;

Rs. 35.00

 

(ii) No fee for search or inspection of the indexes of any one office in respect of any number of documents relating to one or the same property shall exceed;

Rs. 68.00

 

(iii) If any application for a copy of an entry or for inspection or search of an entry the nature of the documents, the date of registration, the register and volume in which it is copied and its number in such volume are shown in the application by a person who is interested in an entry or document, no fee for search or inspection of the indexes shall be levied. But in case where the particulars furnished by the applicant are incorrect and a search of inspection becomes necessary the necessary fees for such inspection should be levied.

 

 

(iv) No fee for search or inspection need be levied in respect of application for copies of entries in Book II, by the party concerned.

 

 

(v) Every application for the grant of a certified copy except at the time of the registration of a document or as provided in Serial (iii) and (iv) above, should be accompanied by the fee necessary to trace the entry in the indexes at the above rates.

 

15. 

(1) A call for information from any Court or Revenue authority shall, if it necessitates search in the register, be accompanied by the necessary fee for search, but officers of Government shall be permitted to search or inspect for bonafide public purposes, the register books and indexes without fee. On the occasion of the annual enquiries prescribed by Government regarding the securities of Mauzadara and ministerial officers, the usual fee must be paid when the search is made by a clerk of the Registration Officer, but no fee will be charged if the search is made by a clerk deputed by the offices making the enquiries.

 

 

(2) When a Register Book is called for by any Court the fee for search should be levied by the Court, from the party at whose instance the register is called for.

 

16. 

(1) for making of granting copies of reasons of entries or documents before or after registration, a fee shall be charged for every pages at the rate;

Rs. 5.00

 

(2) When an applicant requires his copies to be furnished on the day of application, an extra fees, doubled the fee prescribed in Serial (1) above shall be charged.

 

 

(3) Government officers requiring to take copies of entries, documents or maps, for bonafide public purposes, are exempted from payment to fees.

 

(4)  When a trained hand for making copies or plan is temporarily engaged, the registering officer shall personally assess the cost, which should be reasonable, leviable in each case and the amount so realized as cost from the parties should be paid to such copyist as his remuneration.

(5)  Co-operative societies shall have to pay the fees under Serial (2) above when the copies are wanted on the day of application,

(6)  When an applicant requires the inspection or search to be made urgently he shall have to pay double the fees prescribed in Serial (2) (3) and (4) above provided that the total fees leviable under Serial (1) and (2) will not exceed double the amount prescribed therein.

(7)  Co-operative societies shall have to pay the extra fees under Serial (6) above if they want the inspection or search to be made urgently.

(8) When an applicant presents a printed photostat or typed copy of a document already registered and applies to have it certified as a true copy of the same the fees for comparing the same shall be leviable half the amount already levied.

IIEXTRA OR ADDITIONAL FEES

17.

For every copy and memorandum of a documents to be forwarded to another office under section 64-67, there shall be paid an extra fee equivalent to that paid under Serial 16(1)(2)(4) or (6) provided that the fee for a copy shall not exceed and Memorandum of a document shall not exceed

Rs. 35.00

Rs. 15.00

18.

For registration by any Registrars of any document under section 30(1) an extra fee equal to the ordinary fee or Rs. 30.00 whichever is less.

 

 

Note: The additional fee shall not be payable when an instrument is registered by a Registrar acting as Sub-Registrar or in consequence of the Sub-Registrar by whom it should be registered under section 29 being a party interested in the transaction to which such instrument relates.

 

19.

(1) The fee for the attendance under section 31 of the Registration Act, 1908, of an offices at a private residence for acceptance for registration of any one document or for deposit of any will or authority, shall be

Rs. 50.00

 

(2) The fee for attendance at private residence when the presentant is so ill as to be unable without risk to attend at the Registration Office, or at a jail, for acceptance for registration of any one document, or for deposit of any will or authority shall be

Rs. 50.00

 

Provided that two or more persons who executed the same document reside together only one shall be charged so far as those persons are concerned, and the fee shall be credited to Government.

 

 

(3) Travelling expenses for journey to perform such visit shall be realized from the party for whose benefit the visit is to be made and appropriated by the registering officer at the rate as admissible to Government servant as per TA Rules.

 

 

(4) For every attendance at a private residence, if a female assistant is required to accompany a registering officer to take thumb impression of one or more female executants who are Pardanashin or of high birth an extra fee of Rs. 20.00 shall be charged and paid to such assistant irrespective of the number of documents registered at such private residence.

 

 

 

 

Note: (i) If a Sub Registrar or one of his staff pays visit in respect of a document executed in favour of Government, the Deputy Commissioner or the other officers at whose instance the document is to be registered may pay the prescribed fee under Serial 19 to the Registration Department and debit the amount to his contract grant. Any traveling allowances for such visit should be drawn and debit against the budget of the Registration Department, if admissible under ordinary rule.

(ii) Pardanashin women coming to a Registering Office in pulkees or similar conveyance should not be charged visit fees under Serial 19 if the pulkees etc., is brought as near the office door circumstances will allow. In such cases, the women remain behind the pardah and be identified by some of his relatives or other respectable persons.

(iii) The fees fixed under Serial 19(1) and (2) cover

(a)      acceptance for registration of any documents.

 

(b)      acceptance and recording admission of execution.

 

(c)      acceptance for deposit of a will.

20.

(1) Before the issue of a commission or before the registering officer or Magistrate personally proceed to any dwelling house or jail to obtain evidence as to the voluntary nature of the execution of the power of attorney under section 33 of the Act and before the issue of Commission or before the registering officer personally proceeds to any dwelling house or jail for the examination of any person under subsection (2) of section 38 of the Act, the following fees shall be paid credited to Government on account of persons exempted from appearance.

 

 

 

(2) If the person be exempted on account of bodily infirmity such as to make it impossible without risk of life to attend at the registration office or because confined in jail.......

Rs. 50.00

 

(3) If the person be exempted by laws from personal appearance in Court...........

Rs. 50.00

 

(4) Travelling allowances shall be realized and appropriated as provided under Serial 19

 

Notes: (i) Fees for commission executed by officers of the Registration department in accordance with the procedure laid down in Schedule-I, Order 26 of the Code of Civil procedure (section-75(4) of the Registration Act) also be credited to the Registration department.

(ii) The provision regarding visit in the notes (i) and (ii) under Serial 19 will also apply to visit or commissions under this note.

21. 

For admission of a document to registration under section-25 or section-34 of the Act after the expiration of the time prescribed;

 

 

(i) If presented within seven days of the time prescribed

Twice the fee payable on account of such document.

 

(ii) If presented within a month of the time prescribed

Four times the fee

 

(iii) If presented within two months of the time prescribed

Seven times the fee

 

(iv) If presented within three months of the time prescribed

Nine times the fee

 

(v) If presented within four month of the time prescribed

Ten times the fee

 

(vi) The fine is exclusive of the ordinary fees.

 

Explanation: (i) When two or more copies of documents executed by the same party are presented for registration at the same time the ordinary fee shall be payable for each copy but extra or additional fee which is payable under Serial 17, 18, 19 and 20 shall be calculated as for one document only, irrespective of how many copies of the documents may be registered.

(ii) The time during which an impounded document remain with the collector for adjudication of a stamp duty cannot be excluded in calculating the period of four months under section 34 of the Act, so also the time during which a document, remains with the Collector for adjudication of stamp duty cannot be excluded in computing the period of four months under section-25 of the Registration Act (Act No. 16 of 1908).

Notes: The fee charged for delay in presentation under section 25 should be shown in the fee Book and returns as under Serial 21 and at charged for delay in admission of execution under section-34 as under Serial 21.

22.

For authentication or attesting the execution of power of attorney are as follow:-

 

 

(i) If it is a special power

Rs. 20.00

 

(ii) If it is a General power

Rs. 30.00

Explanation: (i) A single fee shall be levied for the attestation of a power of attorney whatever may be the number of signatories to it, provided that all of them appear simultaneously for examination. When they do not so appear separate fee shall be levied for each set of persons appearing at the same time.

(ii) The duplicate or triplicate of power of attorney presented for authentication shall be treated as a separate power and a separate attestation fee levied thereon.

23.

(i) The fee for servicing summons under the provisions of section 37 of the Act shall be regulated according to the scale in force in the Revenue Courts in the same District.

 

 

(ii) The traveling expenses and remuneration of witnesses shall be paid at the rate fixed by the Registering Officer with reference to the rules for time being in force under Rule 2(I) Order No. XVI Schedule-I of the Code of Civil procedure and must be forwarded with the application for issue of summons.

 

24.

Besides the fees payable under Serial 1 to 12 of the Advalorem Scale there shall paid for the Registration of every documents of such length as to occupy more than two pages of register, an extra copying fee for every page or part thereof in excess of first two pages

Rs. 3.00

25.

When a document remain unclaimed for more than one month after completion of registration, a fee shall be charged for every month or part of for every month beyond the first month after completion of registration, will be......

Rs. 5.00

Note: A Registrar is empowered in his discretion to remit, in whole or in part fee leviable under this Serial by himself in case in which it appears to him that their exaction would be productive of injustice or hardship.

26. When a document remain unclaimed for more than one month after refusal of registration, a fee shall be charged for every month or part of for every month beyond the first month of refusal of registration, will be Rs. 5.00 but fee shall not, however, exceed Rs. 35.00.

Note: A registrar is empowered in his discretion to remit, in whole or in part fee leviable under this Serial by himself in case in which it appears to him that their exaction would be productive of injustice or hardship.

EXEMPTION: 1. Documents executed by or in favour of Government on which, no stamp duty is leviable as such under the law for the time being in force (vide Section 3, provision-I of the Stamp Act.

2. Security bonds and penalty bonds executed in favour of Government or local authorities by public servant of all classes and their sureties.

3. Documents executed by Priest of religious places in favour of Government.

4. Mortgage bonds executed by Government officers in favour of Government as security for building advances.

5. Instruments executed by persons taking advances under the Agricultural Lands act or by their sureties as security for the payment of such advances.

6. Security bonds executed by students or their sureties in favour of Government binding themselves to enter Government service on the completion of their studies.

7. Any society registered or deemed to be registered under the Arunachal Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1978 is exempted from paying the following fees payable under the law of registration for the time being in force namely.

(a)      All fees payable by or on behalf of any co-operative society for the time registered or deemed to be registered under the Act.

(b)      All fees payable in respect of any instruments executed by an officer of member of such society and relating to the business thereof, with the exception of the following fees:-

(i)       Fees for attendance at a private residence.

(ii)      Safe custody fee for unclaimed documents.

(iii)     Fees for issuing summons and Commission, and

(iv)    Fees for delay in the presentation of documents or in appearance of the parties.

8. Bonds executed by Non-Gazetted or menial officers of Government for the due performance of their duties and bonds or mortgage deeds executed by private parties as security to Government for the due performance of their duties.

9. Mortgage deeds executed by Government officers for securing the repayment of advances received by them from Government for the purchase of a motor car, a motor boat, a motorcycle, a horse, a cycle or type writer or Computer.