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Part III—Section 2

Statutory Notifications and Orders issued by

Heads of Departments.

NOTIFICATIONS BY HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS, ETC.

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REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT

Tamil Nadu Registration (Identity Verification for the Registration of Documents)

Rules, 2018. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 108-109 Notifi cation under the Registration Act, 1908, etc. .. .. .. .. .. 109-110

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DTP—III-2 (37)108 TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE [Part III—Sec. 2

NOTIFICATIONS BY HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS, ETC.

REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT

Tamil Nadu Registration (Identity Verification for the Registration of Documents) Rules, 2018.

(No. 22049/CS1/17)

No. SRO C-21/2018.—

In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (j) of sub-section (1) of Section 69 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act XVI of 1908), the Inspector General of Registration, with the prior approval of the Government of Tamil Nadu as required under sub-section (2) of Section 69 of the said Act, hereby makes the following Rules,namely:-

RULES

1. Short title and application:-(1) These Rules may be called the Tamil Nadu Registration (Identity Verifi cation for the Registration of Documents) Rules,2018.

(2) These Rules shall apply to such Sub Registrar offi ces or any other Registration offi ces as may be notifi ed by the Inspector General of Registration, from time to time.

2. Definitions.- In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires.-

(1) 'Act' means the Registration Act,1908 (Central Act XVI of 1908);

(2) 'Aadhaar Number' means a twelve digit unique identifi cation number generated and issued to an individual by the Unique Identifi cation Authority of India (UIDAI) after de-duplication of demographic and biometric information pertaining to that individual;

(3) 'Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service' means the electronic authentication carried out by the Unique Identifi cation Authority of India(UIDAI) or agencies appointed by it, after matching the biometric information of an individual at his request or with his consent, with the information maintained by UIDAI in its own central servers, and includes a 'Yes/No' response or a response containing the demographic information and photograph of the individual;

(4) 'UIDAI' means the Unique identifi cation Authority of India.

3. Validity of Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service:-Any person presenting any document at the proper Registration offi ce for registration under Section 32 of the Act, or appearing before the Sub Registrar for the purpose of section 34 or being examined as per sub-section (2) of Section 35 of the Act may utilize the facility of Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service to fulfi ll the requirements under the relevant Sections of the Act and relevant rules made there under in accordance with these rules.

4. Procedure:-Where the option of using the Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service is utilized, the following procedure shall be adopted by the Registering offi cer, namely:-

(a) The explicit consent of such person,either in electronic format or in paper format for the use of the Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service shall be obtained.

(b) Upon granting of consent, the twelve digit Aadhaar number, along with the fi nger print scan or iris scan of the person shall be entered into the UIDAI system through Registration software. Matching with either fi ngerprints or iris scan of a person shall be suffi cient for the purpose of these rules.

(c) Upon authentication, the system of UIDAI shall automatically, return the Consent based Aadhaar Authentication data of the person/user.

(d) The information generated through Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service along with the unique transaction code for that Authentication shall be printed in the summary reports generated through the Registration software and the summary report along with the unique transaction code, shall also be stored in the appropriate electronic format.

5. Power of Registering Officer to examine.-

Notwithstanding anything contained in these rules,-

(a) in case of the party appearing for admitting execution whose identity has been verifi ed through Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service, the Registering Offi cer in order to satisfy himself about the identity of the said party, shall not examine any other persons;

(b) in any other cases, the registering offi cer, in order to satisfy himself about the identity of party may examine persons whose identity has been verifi ed through Consent based Aadhaar Authentication Service and verify the same from the system of UIDAI.

6. Fulfillment of requirement of identification executants.-The information generated through Consent based AADHAR Authentication Service shall be deemed to fulfi ll the requirements of identifi cation of the executants for the purpose of the clause (b) of sub-section (3) of section 34 and sub-section (2) of Section 35 of the said Act read with Sections 4 and 6 of Chapter 2 E-Commerce and Digital Signatures of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Central Act 21 of 2000).

Chennai-600 028, 6th September 2018.

J. KUMARAGURUBARAN, Inspector General of Registration.

Notification under the Registration Act, 1908.

(No. 22049/CS1/17)

No. SRO C-22/2018.—

In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (j) of sub-section (1) of Section 69 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act XVI of 1908), the Inspector General of Registration, with the prior approval of the Government of Tamil Nadu as required under sub-section (2) of Section 69 of the said Act, hereby makes the following amendment to the Rules pulished at pages 983 to 1012 of Part II of the Fort St. George Gazette, dated the 19th May 1914, as subsequently amended, namely:-

AMENDMENT

In the said Rules, after rule 66, the following rule shall be inserted, namely:-

"66-A In cases where left thumb impression or impression of any other fi nger could not be obtained, the Iris scan of the person shall be collected through Iris Scanner and have it stored in electronic form and the fact regarding such collection of Iris scan shall be specifi ed in the endorsement of the document".

Chennai-600 028, 6th September 2018.

J. KUMARAGURUBARAN, Inspector General of Registration.

Notification under the Registration Act, 1908.

(Letter No. 21124/C1/2018)

No. SRO C-23/2018.—

In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (j) of sub–section (1) of Section 69 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act XVI of 1908), the Inspector General of Registration, with the prior approval of the Government of Tamil Nadu as required under sub-section (2) of Section 69 of the said Act, hereby makes the following amendment to the Rules published at pages 983 to 1012 of Part II of the Fort St. George Gazette, dated the 19th May 1914, as subsequently amended, namely:-

AMENDMENT

In the said Rules, after rule 147, the following rule shall be inserted, namely:-

"147-A. In this chapter, for the purpose of Section 57 of the Act in respect of grant of copies of entries in books and indices stores in digital form, wherever the context so requires, the words "application", "seal", "Sign or signed" and "give or deliver or grant" shall mean and denote the words "online application", "electronic seal", "digital signature or digitally signed" and "give electronically or deliver electronically or grant electronically" respectively".

Chennai-600 028, 6th September 2018.

J. KUMARAGURUBARAN, Inspector General of Registration.

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