Insertion of new sections 82A and 82B

After section 82 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely:–– “82A.

1. (1) On and from such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint in this behalf, no person shall write a document for another person for presentation to a registering officer, except under a licence granted in accordance with the rules made under this Act: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply, where the writer of such document is an authorised agent of the executants, or a pleader engaged by the executants, for drawing up the document or the registered clerk of such pleader.
2. (2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall, for the first contravention, be liable to a penalty of ten thousand rupees and, for every subsequent contravention, be punishable with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees. 82B. Any notification of table of fees payable under this Act, made by the Administrator of the Union territory before the commencement of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Registration (Amendment) Regulation, 2026 shall be and shall be deemed always to have been validly made in accordance with law, at all material times when such notification was made and any fees imposed, collected or recovered at any time before the commencement of the said Regulation under such rule shall be deemed to have been validly assessed, imposed, collected or recovered and shall not be called in question in any Court or tribunal or before any officer or authority whatsoever merely on the ground that such notification was made without power to do so or that such fees was invalidly imposed, collected or recovered under such notification.”.