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Under Section 26 of the Registration Act, 1908, a document executed outside India and presented for registration in India must be presented within:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A.
1. Section 26 deals with documents executed outside India.
2. The registering officer may accept such a document if presented within four months "after its arrival in India".
3. The four-month period is measured from arrival, not from execution abroad, because foreign execution may pre-date arrival by many months.
4. The Lesson 15 chart for "Document Executed Outside India" sets out the four-month-from-arrival rule.
_Source: ICSI CS Executive Paper 1 (Jurisprudence, Interpretation & General Laws) — Lesson 15: Registration Act, 1908, pp. 375-388._
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