Law 2 of 7 · 8 steps rest on it

The Registration Act, 1908

This is the law that makes a sale of immovable property compulsory to register and that creates the registers a buyer can search. It is why an unregistered agreement cannot be produced as evidence of title, and why a title check is possible at all: the registers, the indexes and the certified copies all exist because this Act requires them.

The steps it decides

Step 05 · stage 1, checks before you pay
Search the Sub-Registrar registers. Searches the sub-registrar's registers for every registered document affecting the property, so a buyer can trace the chain of title and find...
Step 06 · stage 1, checks before you pay
Encumbrance certificate at the office. Certifies the charges, mortgages and other encumbrances registered against the property.
Step 07 · stage 1, checks before you pay
Encumbrance certificate online. Same encumbrance search, delivered as a printable report without visiting the sub-registrar office.
Step 08 · stage 1, checks before you pay
Certified copy of Index-2. Index-2 carries the core particulars of a registered document: description of the property transferred, the names of the executant and the claimant...
Step 09 · stage 1, checks before you pay
Certified copy of a registered deed. Gives the buyer the full text of an earlier registered document in the chain of title, not just the index entry.
Step 16 · stage 4, sale deed and registration
Drafting the sale deed. Gets the document into a form the Sub-Registrar will accept.
Step 18 · stage 4, sale deed and registration
Registration fee on the sale deed. Discharges the registration fee payable to the Registration department, separate from stamp duty.
Step 19 · stage 4, sale deed and registration
Presenting the deed for registration. Registers the transfer and creates the public record of title.

The exact provision named against each step

These are the citations the register carries, word for word. Where a step cites more than one instrument the whole citation is printed, because the sections only make sense together.

Statutory basis recorded for each step resting on this instrument. Source: the Dholera land procedure register (procedures.json), extracted 4 August 2026 from Gujarat Revenue Department, AnyROR, Garvi, GujRERA, DICDL and DSIRDA documents. Status OFFICIAL on all 35 records. Last verified: 4 August 2026.
Step	What you are doing	Provision named in the source
05GJ-DD-05	Search the Sub-Registrar registers	The Registration Act, 1908 (Part XII, of searches and copies); Bombay Registration Rules (code order 474 cited in the same FAQ)
06GJ-DD-06	Encumbrance certificate at the office	The Registration Act, 1908
07GJ-DD-07	Encumbrance certificate online	The Registration Act, 1908
08GJ-DD-08	Certified copy of Index-2	The Registration Act, 1908, section 55 (indexes) read with the certified-copy provisions
09GJ-DD-09	Certified copy of a registered deed	The Registration Act, 1908
16GJ-REG-01	Drafting the sale deed	The Registration Act, 1908, sections 17 and 49; Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958
18GJ-REG-03	Registration fee on the sale deed	The Registration Act, 1908; Gujarat Registration Rules, 1970
19GJ-REG-04	Presenting the deed for registration	The Registration Act, 1908, sections 23, 28, 32, 32A

The other six

Land Revenue Code, 1879. 10 steps.
Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958. 3 steps.
Tenancy Act, 1948. 3 steps.
Real Estate Act, 2016. 4 steps.
Special Investment Region Act, 2009. 5 steps.
DICDL Land Allotment Policy. 3 steps.

All seven in one table, with the number of steps each one decides.