The Government of Andhra Pradesh on December 27, 2023, issued certain amendments to the registration rules of A P Rules under the Registration Act, 1908 for the electronic thumb impression register of registration act, 1908.
The following amendments have been stated:
• Rule 63 has been substituted with the following:
i) A registering Officer may require any executant, claimant, or identifying or other witness regarding whose identity he has to satisfy himself but who is not personally known to him to affix in his presence. whether such a person can write his name or not, the impression of bulb of any of the fingers in the register of impressions maintained electronically in the database of the department in the form shown in Appendix-IV
(ii) Such impression shall invariably be taken in the case of marksmen and illiterate females.
(iii) A messenger presenting a document under Rule 25 (ii) shall not be required to prove his identity but shall unless known personally to the Registering Officer, be required to sign and affix his thumb impression to the endorsement of the presentation.
Provided that the registering officer may be deemed to be satisfied about the identity of a person, who appears before him/her in relation to registration/attestation of a document presented before him/her and the impression of such person shall not be required to be affixed in the electronic impression register, whose identity has been established through biometric authentication, in accordance with any law of State/Union Government for the time being in force.
• Rule No. 64, 65, 66, 68, 69 has been omitted.
[Notification No. G.O.Ms.No.621, Revenue (Regn.I)]
