though the Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 does not enumerate the agreement for leave and license being one of the documents which is compulsorily required to be registered, by virtue of the provisions comprised under Section 55(1) of the said Act, the said document would stand included in or appended to the list of documents provided under Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908. The contention that the provisions regarding compulsory requirement of registration of the leave and license agreement found in Section 55(1) of the said Act will have to be read along with the list of compulsorily registerable documents under Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 cannot be accepted. In fact, while providing for the consequences of failure on the part of the landlord to get such agreement registered, the provisions of law in the said Act nowhere exclude unregistered agreement of leave and license to be inadmissible in evidence. On the contrary, the said agreement has been made specifically admissible under clause (b) of the Explanation to Section 24 of the said Act which is not in consonance with the provision of law comprised under Section 49 of the Registration Act, 1908. If it was the intention of the legislature that the provision regarding the requirement of registration of the leave and license agreement has to be read along with Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908, nothing would have prevented the legislature to introduce amendment to Section 17 itself or at least to make such agreement inadmissible in the evidence rather than specifically providing for admissibility of such document in evidence as being a conclusive proof of the facts stated therein irrespective of the fact that the agreement is not registered. This fact clearly reveals that the provisions comprised under Section 55(1) of the said Act cannot be read with the provisions of Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908, and for the same reason, the provisions of Section 49 of the Registration Act, 1908 would not be attracted in relation to the agreement for leave and license.
