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No. 30] CHENNAI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2026 Thai 9, Visuvaavasu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2057
Part IV—Section 2
Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances
The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
received the assent of the President on the 9th January 2026
is hereby published for general information:—
ACT. No. 1 OF 2026.
An Act further to amend the Registration Act, 1908, in its
application to the State of Tamil Nadu.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in
the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Registration (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Short title, Act, 2025.
extent and
commencement.
(2) It extends to whole of the State of Tamil Nadu.
(3) It shall come in to force at once.
Central Act XVI of
2. After section 34-B of the Registration Act, 1908, the following section Insertion of new 1908.
shall be inserted, namely:—
section 34-C.
"34-C. Production of Original documents.—Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the registering officer
before whom a document relating to immovable property is presented for
registration shall not register the same, unless the executant produces the
previous original document by which the right over the subject property was
acquired by him along with the Encumbrance Certificate pertaining to the
subject property obtained within ten days before the date of presentation:
Provided that where an encumbrance as to subsisting mortgage, exists
over the property, the registering officer shall not register such document
unless a No Objection Certificate is obtained from the mortgagee:
TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY 2Provided further that where an agreement for sale has been executed in
respect of the subject property and it has not been performed, the registering
authority shall not register such document unless the period of limitation for
filing a suit for specific performance of the above agreement has lapsed:
Provided also that where the subject property is ancestral one and the
previous original document is not available, the registering officer shall not
register such document, unless the patta issued by the Revenue Department
in respect of that property is produced:
Provided also that if the previous original document is lost, the
registering officer shall not register such document unless non-traceable
Certificate issued by the Police department along with the advertisement
published in the local Newspaper giving the notice of loss of the previous
original document are produced:
Provided also that production of the previous original document shall
not be necessary for a document in which the Government or a statutory
body is the executant or for such classes of documents as may be notified
by the State Government, from time to time.".
(By order of the Governor)
S. GEORGE ALEXANDER,