28: Place for registering documents relating to land

Place for registering documents relating to land.— [(1)] Save as in this Part otherwise provided, every document mentioned in section 17, sub section (1), clauses (a), (b), (c) [,(d) and (e), section 17, sub section (2), and section 18, in so for as such documents affects immoveable property] shall be presented for registration in the office of a Sub Registrar within whose sub district the whole or some portion of the property to which such document relates is situate. [(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub section (1),— (a) after a document is registered, no party thereto shall be entitled to question the validity of its registration on the ground that the property which purported to give jurisdiction to the Sub Registrar to register it either did not exist or was fictitious or insignificant or was not intended to be conveyed; and (b) a document the registration of which is secured by the inclusion of a non existent, fictitious or insignificant portion or item shall not in any manner affect the rights of a person who was not a party thereto and acquired rights in the property without notice of the transaction to which such document relates.]

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