Registration Act, 1908
(1) The State Government shall establish in every district an office to be styled the office of the Registrar and in every sub-district an office or offices to be styled the office of the Sub-Registrar or the offices of the Joint Sub-Registrars. (2) The State Government may amalgamate with any office of a Registrar, any office of a Sub-Registrar subordinate to such Registrar, and may authorise any Sub-Registrar whose office has been so amalgamated to exercise and perform, in addition to his own duties, all or any of the powers and duties of the Registrar to whose office his own office has been so amalgamated: Provided that no such authorisation shall be deemed to render the Sub-Registrar liable to any criminal proceedings to which he would not have been liable otherwise.