Section 57ASub-registrar not to register deeds.

s. 57A

57A. Sub-registrar not to register deeds [(1) Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary in the Registration Act, 1908 (Act No. XVI of 1908), no Sub-registrar shall register any deed of transfer of any immovable property belonging to a waqf, without the previous sanction of the Administrator or the Government, as the case may be. (2) If a Sub-registrar, knowingly and intentionally, registers a deed in violation of the prohibition under sub-section (1), he shall be liable for commission of the offence of abetment of criminal breach of trust.]

1. 16. Section 57A was inserted by section 6 of the Waqfs (Amendment) Act, 2013 (Act No. XVIII of 2013).