Section 8: Inspectors of Registration offices

(1) The [State Government] may also appoint officers to be called Inspector of Registration offices, and may prescribe the duties of such officers.

(2) Every such Inspector shall be subordinate to the Inspector-General.

State amendments to this section

Orissa

Amendment of section 8.—In section 8 of the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—

(a) in sub-section (1), for the words " Inspector of Registration Offices" the words " Additional Inspector –General of Registration, Joint Inspector-General of Registration and Deputy InspectorGeneral of Registration" shall be substituted; and

(b) in sub-section(2), for the words "Inspector", the words "Additional Inspector-General, Joint Inspector-General and Deputy Inspector-General" shall be substituted.

[Vide Orissa Act 8 of 2002, s. 2]

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