Restrictions on the Registration of Sale Deeds, Etc.

Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, when any document required to be registered under the provisions of clauses (a) to (e) of sub-section (1) of section 17 of the Indian Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act XVI of 1908), purports to transfer by way of sale or lease any vacant land, no registering officer appointed under that Act shall register any such document unless the transferor produces before such registering officer evidence to show that he has paid the premium levied by the Authority as provided under clause (a) of section 65.