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CHENNAI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23,  2026

Thai 9, Visuvaavasu, Thiruvalluvar Aandu-2057

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

[1]

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)

Act, 2025.

Short title,

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

1908.

2. After section 34-B of the Registration Act, 1908, the following section

shall be inserted, namely:—

Insertion of new

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:

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Provided 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,

Secretary to Government,

Law Department.

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