Application for Re-transfer and Issue of a Re-allotment Letter after a Registered Deed (GMADA / GLADA / ADA / JDA / BDA / PDA)

Stamp duty

The application and Part B undertaking aren't stampable — not an instrument under Stamp Act s.2(14): Part B acknowledges existing liabilities, creating nothing new. Parts A, C, D, E are plain paper. GMADA's booklet costs Rs 15 — a form charge, not duty (print it yourself and it doesn't arise). If your Estate Office wants Part B on oath instead (GMADA's checklist demands no affidavit), the denomination is Rs 25 — GMADA's and GLADA's affidavit panels both print this, chargeable under Art.4, Sch.I-A, Punjab. Every deponent needs own paper; buy as a Punjab e-stamp (igrpunjab.gov.in) in the deponent's own name — a stranger's name is the commonest rejection reason. The duty that mattered was paid earlier, on the deed this application reports — check it, since under-stamping is impounded (s.33) and the Estate Office won't act on it. Punjab: 5% + 1% Social Infrastructure Cess + 1% PIDB = 7%, on the higher of consideration/Collector rate; registration fee 1% (cap Rs 2,00,000), facilitation Rs 1,000/3,000/5,000 (≤10L/≤30L/>30L), pasting Rs 200, mutation Rs 600. Whether duty is on the price paid or the Collector rate is UNSETTLED — GMADA's form says only 'as applicable on date of execution'; confirm at the Sub-Registrar, S.A.S. Nagar. No women's concession is traced. Chandigarh, orientation only — this template is Punjab-only: a different Act (Capital of Punjab Act 1952) governs; a leasehold site needs the Estate Officer's prior NOC plus one-third of the unearned increase, and s.19 of that Act shuts the civil court out of enforcement. Duty: the Administration's table shows 5% (a Tribune explainer of 28 March 2026 agrees) — the widely claimed 6% is untraced; confirm at 30 Bays Building, Sector 17. Registration fee is capped at Rs 10,000 on a possibly-stale table (assembled around 2020). Collector rates were revised from 1 April 2026 — Sectors 1–12 up 33.2% to Rs 2,37,900/sq yd — with leasehold-to-freehold conversion charges (revised September 2025) pegged to these; no women's concession there either.

Registration

Nothing here is registered — s.17(1) requires an interest-creating instrument, and recording a transfer a registered deed already effected isn't one. The deed itself HAD to be registered, and this application reports that. That earlier registration's clock is checked here: s.23 requires presentation within four months of execution, extendable four more on a fine up to 10x the fee (s.25) — beyond eight months the registration is bad. This template refuses a gap over eight months (not four); take both dates from the certified copy's endorsement. File at the Estate Officer's counter: GMADA (PUDA Bhawan, Sector 62, S.A.S. Nagar), GLADA (GLADA Complex, near Rajguru Nagar, Ferozepur Road, Ludhiana), or ADA/JDA/BDA/PDA's own address. GMADA's checklist is three items — the form, the certified deed copy (or permission letter), and the original transfer permission. Take the dated receipt — the only thing that starts the clock. Published figures disagree, so quote all: GMADA's website/booklet say 5 working days; its RTS chart separately lists 5 for Change of Ownership, 10 for transfer-on-sale, 15 for the conveyance deed, 5 for a no-due certificate, 10/3/10 for NOC/duplicate letters. GLADA: 15 working days re-transfer on sale, 21 NOC/duplicate, 15 conveyance, 7 no-due, 45 on death. Quote the Authority you're filing with, others when you complain. Delay appeals to the Additional Chief Administrator — check which Act your form cites (Punjab Right to Service Act 2011, or GMADA's Punjab Transparency and Accountability Act 2018). What comes out is the re-allotment letter (ask expressly, clause 11) — it unlocks a no-due certificate, mortgage permission (7 days both charts) and, once paid up, the conveyance deed (15 days both). Don't delay: the land stays the Authority's under s.43(6) until then, and GLADA's affidavit makes the allottee/transferee undertake to pay any final/additional price the Estate Officer determines even AFTER registration, on pain of resumption — an open-ended liability now yours. A Chandigarh Estate Office site follows a wholly different route: the allotment file IS the title, a leasehold site needs prior NOC plus one-third unearned increase, mutation auto-triggers from the Sub-Registrar since 2025, and a 2023 notice stopped transfers outside four categories pending the Heritage Committee. Registered at 30 Bays Building, Sector 17, fee capped Rs 10,000, 5% duty — none of that applies to a Punjab file.

Notarisation

Nothing here needs notarising — signed, not sworn. Parts A–E carry ordinary signatures, and GMADA's checklist (three items, none an affidavit) asks no oath. A notarised bundle usually means confusion with the transfer-permission application, which genuinely needs two sworn affidavits. What DOES need attesting is the copies: every photocopy is self-attested by the person whose document it is; a notary's stamp is neither required nor harmful. Exception: the registered deed must be a CERTIFIED copy from the Sub-Registrar (s.57), not a photocopy. The permission-to-transfer letter goes in as the original, or the Authority's attested copy where lost (clause 4). If your Estate Office wants Part B on oath anyway (varies — not on GMADA's checklist), swear before an Oath Commissioner (S.A.S. Nagar for GMADA, Ludhiana for GLADA) or a Notary. The deponent appears personally with photo ID, signs before the officer, who seals and enters it in the notarial register under a serial number — check it. Notary fees follow Rule 10, Notaries Rules 1956; Oath Commissioners charge a nominal fee. Abroad: an Indian mission's consular officer, or a foreign notary plus apostille. A Chandigarh estate file is a different office/Act — sworn before that jurisdiction's own officer and lodged at the Estate Office, UT Chandigarh.

Witnesses

No witness is legally necessary anywhere in this pack. The 1995 Act prescribes none, GMADA's form has no witness panel, and Part B runs to a statutory authority, not a deed. The four witness fields are optional — leave blank and the panel drops. Worth using anyway: this is the one estate service the seller doesn't sign, so a producible witness resolves an identity query faster than a fresh application. They attest the Part C signing — identity, not contents. Full age, sound mind, not a party, full residential address, photo ID. Avoid the deed-writer, property dealer, or either party's employee. The deed that brought you here had REAL witness requirements: a sale deed is executed before two witnesses at the Sub-Registrar under s.34, Registration Act, with photo ID and PAN/Form 60; a gift deed additionally needs two witnesses under s.123, TP Act, neither taking anything under the gift. If either was missed, fix the deed first — a defective deed produces a defective re-allotment. A Chandigarh Estate Office site follows that office's own practice under the 1952 Act — this template is Punjab-only.