New Sections 68A and 68B

After section 68 of the Principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely: - "68A. Prohibition of unlicensed person. (1) No person who is not licensed as provided under section 68-B, shall engage himself in the profession of document-writer and document drawn-up and signed by a person who does not hold a license shall not be accepted for registration by the registering officers: Provided that no advocate or pleader or mukhtar shall be required to have a license under section 68-B. (2) Nothing in this section shall prohibit an executant of document to draw up a document to be presented for registration or to do any other act for himself for which a licensed document-writer could have been otherwise engaged. (3) Nothing in this section shall apply to document executed out of India or out of the Union territory or to a will or to document scribed by document-writer holding license for one sub-district or one district and presented for registration in another sub-district or another district as the case may be, or to documents executed by or on behalf of the Union territory or local authorities or other corporate bodies. 68B. Grant of license to document-writers. (1) The Registrar of district or any other officer authorized by him in this behalf may grant a license, to be valid in one sub-district or one district in the prescribed form to document-writer or apprentice to document-writer on an application made in this behalf, on such term and conditions as may be prescribed by the Inspector-General of Registration in this behalf after conducting a written test as may be prescribed. (2) A licence may be granted to any person who has been in the profession of the document-writer for at least ten years prior to the date of the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Adaptation of Central Laws and State Laws) Fourth Order, 2022 came into force, without requiring him to appear in the written test referred to in sub-section (1), if the Registrar of a district or any other officer authorized by him"