The Sub-Registrar office and Garvi

These are the steps it owns, numbered as they fall in the overall sequence, so a gap in the numbers means another office handles something in between.

• 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 10 · stage 1, checks before you pay
  Check the jantri rate. Fixes the government valuation floor on which stamp duty is charged.
• Step 16 · stage 4, sale deed and registration
  Drafting the sale deed. Gets the document into a form the Sub-Registrar will accept.
• Step 17 · stage 4, sale deed and registration
  Stamp duty on the sale deed. Discharges the stamp duty liability on the transfer.
• 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.

7 of the 10 steps at this office publish an amount. The wording is the government's own, shortened here; the full text is on each step page.

• Search the Sub-Registrar registers
  Court fee ticket of Rs. 5/- affixed on Form No. 3, PLUS search fee of Rs. 20/- for the first year and Rs. 10/- for each...
• Encumbrance certificate at the office
  Rs. 100 (source states, in Gujarati: 'જેની ફી 100 રૂપિયા છે')
• Certified copy of Index-2
  OFFLINE (stated): court fee ticket of Rs. 3/- affixed on Form No. 3, PLUS copy fee of Rs. 20/-, PLUS a court fee ticket (stamp...
• Certified copy of a registered deed
  Court fee ticket of Rs. 3/- affixed on Form No. 3, PLUS a per-page copy fee that varies with page size: 18.5 cm x 11.4 cm = Rs....
• Stamp duty on the sale deed
  Article 20(a) Conveyance - Immovable Property: (a) AGRICULTURAL LAND - 4.9% of the consideration value or the market value...
• Registration fee on the sale deed
  Article 20(a) Conveyance: 1% of the consideration amount.
• Presenting the deed for registration
  Stamp duty per GJ-REG-02 plus registration fee per GJ-REG-03.

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.

Quoted from the statutory basis recorded against each step. An office acting outside these provisions is doing something the register does not cover.

• The Registration Act, 1908 (Part XII, of searches and copies); Bombay Registration Rules (code order 474 cited in the same FAQ)
• The Registration Act, 1908
• The Registration Act, 1908, section 55 (indexes) read with the certified-copy provisions
• Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 read with the Rules for market value calculation, 1984 (published on garvi.gujarat.gov.in as 'Rules for market value calculation-1984')
• The Registration Act, 1908, sections 17 and 49; Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958
• Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958, Schedule I
• The Registration Act, 1908; Gujarat Registration Rules, 1970
• The Registration Act, 1908, sections 23, 28, 32, 32A

• AnyROR land records. 4 steps.
• The Collector and iORA. 5 steps.
• Taluka and land records. 5 steps.
• GujRERA and the tribunal. 4 steps.
• DICDL. 3 steps.
• DSIRDA and the Apex Authority. 4 steps.

All seven side by side, with the share of the process each one owns.