A request for copies of the record
To a sub-registrar for entries in the register of deeds, or to a Punjab revenue office for the fard.
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Request for copies of the record of a property
Tick the office and strike out the other.
To: The Sub-Registrar, the office, its name and city
To: The revenue office, the office, its name and city
From: your full name
CNIC or NICOP number your CNIC or NICOP number
your address abroad
Contact: email or phone
The property
the property, as its papers describe it
Tick the request that matches the office above.
Under section 57(1) of the Registration Act 1908, copies of entries in Books 1 and 2 are given to all persons applying for them. I apply for copies of every entry for this property, including deed deed number, book, volume and date.
Under section 177 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act 1967, certified copies or extracts of the land record are given to all persons applying for them. I apply for certified copies of the land record (the fard) for khasra or khewat khasra or khewat number, mauza mauza, tehsil and district tehsil and district.
I also ask to inspect Book No. 1 and its index for this property. Section 57(1) keeps them open to inspection by any person applying.
I also ask to inspect the land record for this land. Section 177 keeps it open to the public at reasonable hours.
name and CNIC number of the person collecting will collect the copies for me and carries this letter.
I will pay the fee the office sets for the copies. Please tell me what it is.
Signed by me: signature
Name: your full name
Date: date
Place: city and country
Before you sign or send (notes for you, not part of the paper)
- UNCONFIRMEDNot confirmed: the office's form, fee and time for copies. The sections say copies are given to all persons applying, not how. Ask the office. Read the step
- Section 177 is in a Punjab law. For land elsewhere in Pakistan we have not read the rule. Read the step
- UNCONFIRMEDNot confirmed: whether the office hands copies to someone collecting for you, or what it asks them to show. A narrow power of attorney to collect documents is one of the papers on this site. Read the step
A starting draft. No lawyer has reviewed it. Have a lawyer in Pakistan read it before you sign or send it.
What this paper rests on
Sub-registrar
Ask the sub-registrar to let you inspect the register and give you copies of entries for the property.
s57(1), Registration Act 1908, read .
The text says
the Books Nos. 1 and 2 and the Indexes relating to Book No.1 shall be at all times open to inspection by any person applying to inspect the same; and, subject to the provisions of section 62, copies of entries in such books shall be given to all persons applying for such copies.
Revenue office Punjab
For land in Punjab, ask the revenue office for certified copies of the land record for the khasra.
s177, Punjab Land Revenue Act 1967, read .
The text says
all maps and land-records prepared or required to be made under this Act shall be open to the inspection of the public at reasonable hours, and certified extracts from the same or certified copies thereof shall be given to all persons applying for the same