Documents of which registration is compulsory [Section 17]

You pay a broker a token amount for a flat in Kharghar and sign a one-page paper. Your uncle says that is not enough, the deal must be “registered”. Another relative says registration is only for big flats. Who is right? Section 17 of the Registration Act 1908 is the list that answers this, and it is the section on which most property disputes about paperwork turn.

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Section 17 lists the documents that must be registered: gifts of immovable property, other non-testamentary documents that create or end rights in immovable property worth Rs 100 or more, receipts for such transactions, leases beyond a year, and assignments of decrees dealing with immovable property.

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