Amendment of section 69, Central Act No. 16 of 1908.-

In sub-section (1) of section 69 of the principal Act,- (i) the existing clause (i) shall be deleted; (ii) after the existing clause (j), the following shall be added, namely:- "(k) regulating the procedure for presentation of various types of documents, appearance of executants for admission of execution, endorsements, and the manner of fixing signature and seal of registering officer, mode of payment of registration fees and other fees and such other processes when the document is presented for registration by electronic means; (l) regulating the procedure of registration; (m) providing the manner in which and the safeguards subject to which the books may be kept in computer floppies or diskettes or in any other electronic form under sub-section (1) of section 16A; (n) regulating the procedure for taking of photograph of identifying witnesses to a document presented before a registering officer; (o) providing for online registration of documents and enquiry before the registering officer when the document is presented before the registering officer by electronic means at any office of the registering officer; (p) providing for scanning the documents for their safety in electronic form; (q) providing for sending of memoranda of documents registered in electronic form; (r) regulating the manner in which the instruments referred to in sub-section (2) of section 88 may be presented for registration; (s) regulating the manner of recopying of books, indexes or portions thereof."