it is made on the first day of the opening of the office (vide Section

10 of the General Clauses Act, X of 1897).

300 Parties entitled to present documents for
registration. If the document be not open to any of the objections
set forth above, the registering officer, before finally accepting it for
registration, should satisfy himself that the person presenting it
has legal authority to do so. The persons who may present a
document for registiation are tne lollowing :
(a) in the case of a will, the testator, and after his death
any person claiming under it as executor otherwise ;
(b) in the case of an authority to adopt, the donor, and
after his death, the donee or the adopted son ;
(c) in the case of a copy of a decree or order, any person
claiming under the decree or order ;
(d) in any other case, any person executing or claiming
under the document ;
(e) the representative or assign of any of the foregoing ;
(f) the agent of any of the foregoing.
Note. Where the Indian Registration Act, 1908 or any rule
made thereunder, requires or permits any act to be done with
reference to a document by a person executing or claiming under
the same and the document has been executed on behalf of
Municipal or District Board or is a document under which a
Municipal or District Board claims, the act may, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in the aforesaid enactment or in
any rule thereunder, be done (1) in the case of Municipal Board,
by the Chairman, the Executive Officer or a Secretary of the
Board, or by other officer of the Board empowered by regulation in
this behalf, and (2) in the case of District Board, by the Chairman,
or by any other officer of the Board empowered by regulation in
this behalf.
301. Presentation by representatives, assigns or agents.
If the document having been executed by the principal, be
presented by a representative* or assign the latter should satisfy
the registering officer of his status. If by an agent, he must produce
a power-of-attorney authenticated in the manner prescribed in
Section 33 of the Registration Act. But care must be taken to
distinguish between deeds executed by agents in pursuance of
power in that behalf conferred upon them by their principals, and
deeds executed by principals presented for registration by agents
empowered in that behalf. It is not the duty of the registering
officer to satisfy himself of the power of an agent being the actual