Payment of landlord’s registration fee, etc. compulsory at the time of the registration of a deed of gift or sale of a raiyati holding or a portion thereof.

(1) A registration officer shall not register any instruments purporting or operating to transfer a raiyati holding or portion of a raiyati holding by sale or gift unless there is paid to him, in addition to any fees payable under the Act for the time being in force for the registration of documents, a process fee of the prescribed amount and the landlord’s registration fee payable under sub-section (2) of the section 24 together with the costs necessary for the transmission of the registration fee to the landlord. (2) When the registration of any such instrument is complete, the registering officer shall send to the Deputy Commissioner the registration fee and the costs necessary for the transmission of the same to the landlord and a notice of the transfer and registration in the prescribed form, and the Deputy Commissioner shall cause the fee to be transmitted to, and the noticed to be served on, landlord named in the notice in the prescribed manner.