Registration Act 1908

10. Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office: When any Registrar is absent otherwise than on duty in
his district, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector-General appoints in
this behalf, or, in default of such appointment, the Judge of the District Court within the local limits of
whose jurisdiction the Registrar's office is situate, shall be the Registrar during such absence or until the
Provincial Government fills up the vacancy.

11. Absence of Registrar on duty in his district: When any Registrar is absent from his office on duty in
his district, he may appoint any Sub-Registrar or other person in his district to perform, during such
absence, all the duties of a Registrar except those mentioned in Sees. 68 and 72.

12. Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office: When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his
office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Registrar of the district appoints in this behalf shall
be Sub-Registrar during such absence, or until the vacancy is filled up.

West Pakistan Registration Rules, 1929

Rule 12. When a Sub-Registrar is absent:--- Section 12 of the Act provides for temporary
vacancies in the office of Sub-Registrar. When a subordinate registering officer proceeds on leave of
absence, or is otherwise temporarily away from his office, the Registrar will provide for the
performance of his duties during his absence in the following manner:---

(a) when the absent officer is the district Treasury Officer, the officer who succeeds him in
charge of the Treasury should take over his registration duties also, except where the Deputy
Commissioner himself takes charge of the Treasury, in which case the registration duties should be
made over to the local Tehsildar or to some civil officer at headquarters. It is incompatible with the
provisions of the Act for a Registrar to perform the duties of a Sub-Registrar, except where the two
offices have been amalgamated under section 7 of the Act; moreover, such an arrangement might be
productive of inconvenience in cases where a party wished to appeal against an order issued by the
Deputy Commissioner in the capacity of a Sub-Registrar;

(b) save as provided above, where there are two subordinate registering officers at the
same place, during the temporary absence of one the other should ordinarily be required to perform
the duties of both offices;

(c) save as provided above, when the absent officer is a Tehsildar, the Naib-Tehsildar, if
available, should be placed in charge of the registration duties;

(d) in all other cases, the Registrar should make such arrangements as appear to him to
be most suitable in the circumstances for maintaining the continuity of the business of the office.