Indian Registration (Orissa Amendment) Act, 1966 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Insertion of new Section 89-A, Act 16 of 1908. The Indian Registration (Orissa Amendment) Act, 1966

Orissa Act No. 17 of 1966

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Published vide Orissa Gazette Extraordinary/11-7-1967.

For Statement of Objects and Reasons see Orissa Gazette Extraordinary No. 1482/21-9-1965.

An Act to amend the Indian Registration Act, 1908 in its application to the State of Orissa

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Seventeenth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :

Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Indian Registration (Orissa Amendment) Act, 1966.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Orissa.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

Insertion of new Section 89-A, Act 16 of 1908.- After Section 89 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908) the following new section shall be inserted, namely :

"89-A. Duty of Collector in proceedings under Section 47-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. - (1) It shall be the duty of the Collector, if he is satisfied diring the proceedings, if any, under Section 47-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 that the fees for registration paid under this Act in respect of a document is in deficit to determine in the course of such proceedings the deficient amount of fee and to send a copy of the order made in the proceedings to the Registering Officer for recovery of the said amount from the person liable to pay the deficient amount of stamp duty under the said section; and all amounts recoverable as aforesaid may be recovered as arrears of land revenue.

(2) An order of the Collector under Sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be an order made by the Collector under Section 47-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (2 of 1899) and shall be final subject to the decision in appeal, if any, under Sub-section (3) of the said section".