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" PLEA FOR DELETION OF SECTION 47 OF REGISTRATION ACT, 1908 PLEA FOR DELETION OF SECTION 47 OF REGISTRATION ACT, 1908     BY   Ch. Muhammad Bashir Advocate, Faisalabad   Section 47 of the Registration Act, 1908 not only conflicts with section 49 of the Registration Act, by reference to the time since when a registered document is to be given effect to, but also has become a source of fraud.   In order to appreciate, the two‑fold effects of section 47 it is thought expedient to reproduce the said provisions and section 23 of the Registration Act and sections 54 and 78 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882. Section 47: "A registered document shall operate from the time from which it would have commenced to operate if no registration thereof had been required or made, and not from the time of its registration".   Section 49. "No document required to be registered under this Act or under any earlier law providing for or relating to registration of documents shall operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest whether vested or contingent, to or in immovable property unless it has been registered."   Section 23. "Subject to the provision contained in sections 24, 25 and 26 no document other than a will shall be accepted for registration, when presented for that purpose to the proper officer within four months from the date of its execution.   Section 54. of Transfer of Property Act, 1582:   "Sale" is a transfer of ownership in exchange for a price paid or promised or part paid and part promised. Such transfer, in the case' of tangible immovable property of the value of one hundred rupees and upwards or in the case of a…