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General Power of Attorney with Power to Sell to a Blood Relation

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Stamp duty
Stamp duty on a power of attorney is charged under entry 48 of Schedule I-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, and Schedule I-A stands differently in Punjab from the way it stands in the Union Territory of Chandigarh — the same split the base General Power of Attorney template states, reused here without re-deriving it, because this deed DOES carry a power to sell and so lands on the opposite line of the same table.
Registration
Registration of this deed is NOT compulsory — a power of attorney is not in the list in section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908.
Witnesses
Two independent adults, neither the Attorney nor the Attorney's spouse, and neither a beneficiary of the intended sale.

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Also called

  • Family GPA with Sale Power
  • Mukhtiarnama with Power to Sell to a Relative
  • NRI Sale Power of Attorney
  • GPA to Sell Property to Family Member
  • बिक्री अधिकार सहित मुख्तियारनामा
  • ਵਿਕਰੀ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ ਸਹਿਤ ਮੁਖ਼ਤਿਆਰਨਾਮਾ

When you need it

An owner — commonly an NRI, or someone who cannot easily attend in person — wants a relative to be able to manage a property AND to sell one specifically described immovable property on the owner's behalf, where the Attorney is confined to a blood relation: spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent or grandchild. That narrow class is not a stylistic choice — it is exactly the class Punjab's own stamp Note to item (f) of entry 48, Schedule I-A treats as "family" for a cheaper rate on a sale-power deed, and confining the Attorney to that class is what keeps this deed inside that cheaper treatment in Punjab.

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Appoint anybody outside that class to sell and this deed is the wrong one — use a Special Power of Attorney limited to that one sale instead, and budget for the non-family rate. DO NOT TREAT THIS DEED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR A REGISTERED SALE DEED. Granting this power does not itself transfer any title — nothing has been sold until the Attorney, acting under this power, actually executes and registers a duly stamped Sale Deed conveying the property to a real buyer for real consideration. In Suraj Lamp & Industries Ltd. v. State of Haryana, decided on 11 October 2011 and reported at (2012) 1 SCC 656, the Supreme Court held that the sale-agreement-plus-general-power-of-attorney-plus-will method transfers no title, and that an interest in immovable property passes only under a duly stamped and registered conveyance. This deed is the agency that lets the Attorney go and sign that conveyance; it is not the conveyance itself. Not for appointing someone outside the blood-relation class to sell — use a Special Power of Attorney for that single sale instead. Not for ordinary property management with no sale power at all — use the General Power of Attorney (Management Only, No Power to Sell Immovable Property) for that; it is the cheaper, safer default and most NRI owners should start there.

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

Stamp duty on a power of attorney is charged under entry 48 of Schedule I-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, and Schedule I-A stands differently in Punjab from the way it stands in the Union Territory of Chandigarh — the same split the base General Power of Attorney template states, reused here without re-deriving it, because this deed DOES carry a power to sell and so lands on the opposite line of the same table. PUNJAB. Item (f) of entry 48, as substituted by the Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2023 (Punjab Act No. 2 of 2024, gazetted 15 January 2024), charges 2% of the consideration or of the Collector rate, whichever is higher, on a power of attorney authorising the attorney to SELL immovable property where the attorney is NOT a family member — and the Note to item (f) defines family member as spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent and grandchild, which is exactly the class this deed confines the Attorney to. Because the Attorney named in this deed is required to be within that class, the 2% non-family ad valorem charge does not apply. This drafter could not independently confirm the specific concessional or fixed figure the Punjab table charges for a FAMILY-member sale-power power of attorney — the base General Power of Attorney template never had to state one, because it carries no sale power at all — so treat that figure as unconfirmed and ask the Sub-Registrar or Joint Sub-Registrar of the tehsil in which the property lies, or the Deputy Commissioner as Collector of Stamps, before buying stamp paper. See lawyerShouldCheck. CHANDIGARH. There is no family concession on this line at all. The Chandigarh Administration's published "Rates of Stamp Duty & Registration Fees" table charges a general power of attorney WITH power to sell at 3% of the value of the property or the consideration, whichever is higher, whoever the attorney is — the base General Power of Attorney template states this plainly for the same reason it warns against assuming a sale power is cheap in Chandigarh, and that warning applies here with full force, not reduced force, because this deed's whole point is the sale power. That table is the Chandigarh Administration's published document-wise table, created as a PDF on 17 May 2020, bearing no notification number and no date on its face — confirm the current figure at the Sub-Registrar, UT Chandigarh, 30 Bays Building, Sector 17, before you execute. The premise that a Punjab State Act cannot amend how this instrument is charged in the Union Territory, and that only a Ministry of Home Affairs notification could, is sound in principle but the current Chandigarh entry 48 text itself was not independently obtained to confirm it — the same caveat the base template's own review already carries. BOTH PLACES. If the deed is signed in India, stamp it before or at the time of execution under section 17 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. If signed abroad, section 18 allows stamping within three months after the document first reaches India. An unstamped instrument is inadmissible in evidence and no public officer may act upon it under section 35.

Registration

Registration of this deed is NOT compulsory — a power of attorney is not in the list in section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908. It is nonetheless strongly worth doing for a deed that carries a power to sell: a registered deed sits on a record a buyer's advocate, a bank or a Sub-Registrar's own staff can search before relying on it, which matters far more for a sale-power deed than for a management-only one. The ACTUAL Sale Deed the Attorney later executes to convey the property is separately, and compulsorily, registrable under section 17(1)(b) of that Act — this deed's own registration, if chosen, does not substitute for that.

Notarisation

Notarise it in every case, and where the Principal signs outside India, execution before the Indian Consulate, High Commission or Embassy with jurisdiction is the safer route — the same guidance the base General Power of Attorney gives. Two witnesses attend in every case, and in Chandigarh the first one must fit the same qualifying class the Sub-Registrar checks for on any deed.

Witnesses

Two independent adults, neither the Attorney nor the Attorney's spouse, and neither a beneficiary of the intended sale.

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GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY WITH POWER TO SELL TO A BLOOD RELATION

Executed at Chandigarh on 1 April 2026. Signed In India. Governing jurisdiction: the State of Punjab.

I, Harbans Singh, son of Late Sh. Ajit Singh, resident of 14 Wentworth Avenue, Toronto, Canada, holding Indian Passport No. Z1234567 (the "Principal"), do hereby appoint, nominate and constitute:

Ravneet Singh, son of Sh. Harbans Singh, resident of House No. 88, Model Town, Ludhiana 141002, holding Aadhaar 4444 5555 6666, being my spouse (the "Attorney"),

as my true and lawful attorney, to act for me and in my name in respect of the property described in the Schedule below (the "Property"), on the following terms.

  1. 1. SUITABILITY OF THE ATTORNEY

1.1 This deed is granted only because the Attorney is my spouse — within the class of spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent or grandchild that Punjab's own stamp Note to item (f) of entry 48, Schedule I-A treats as "family" for a sale-power power of attorney. If the Attorney named above ceases to fit that description, or if the Principal later wishes to appoint someone outside it, this deed should not be relied on for that different appointee, and a fresh, correctly stamped instrument should be executed instead.

  1. 2. WHAT THIS DEED TRANSFERS, AND WHAT IT DOES NOT

2.1 This deed creates an agency and no more. It does not itself sell, convey, assign, gift or otherwise transfer any interest in the Property to the Attorney or to anybody else, and no person may treat it, or any receipt or agreement produced with it, as a conveyance.

2.2 Following Suraj Lamp & Industries Ltd. v. State of Haryana, decided 11 October 2011, reported at (2012) 1 SCC 656, an interest in immovable property passes only under a duly stamped and registered instrument of transfer. The power this deed grants lets the Attorney negotiate a sale and execute and register the actual Sale Deed in the buyer's favour, receiving consideration on the terms in clause 5 below — it is that Sale Deed, when executed and registered, that transfers title, not this power of attorney.

  1. 3. THE SALE POWER

3.1 The Attorney is authorised to negotiate the sale of the Property, to execute an agreement to sell if the Attorney judges one useful, and to execute, present for registration and get registered a Sale Deed conveying the Property to a buyer, and to do every act reasonably incidental to that sale, including obtaining any no-objection certificate, clearance or permission the property's title requires before it can be sold.

3.2 None — this deed grants only the power to sell the property described below, and no wider management power

  1. 4. MINIMUM PRICE

4.1 No minimum is fixed; the Attorney may sell at a price the Attorney judges fair, having regard to the prevailing market and Collector rate

What this document is for

An owner — commonly an NRI, or someone who cannot easily attend in person — uses this to let a close relative sell ONE specifically described property on the owner's behalf, where the Attorney is confined to a blood relation: spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent or grandchild. That narrow class is not a stylistic choice — it is exactly the class Punjab's own stamp Note to item (f) of entry 48, Schedule I-A treats as "family" for this kind of deed, and confining the Attorney to it is what keeps this deed inside that treatment in Punjab.

This deed also builds in safeguards the plain sale power in a general document would not: a minimum sale price if the owner wants one fixed, and a choice of how the sale consideration is received — paid straight into the owner's own account, or received by the Attorney and remitted within a stated number of days. It is not, by itself, a sale: nothing transfers until the Attorney actually executes and registers a Sale Deed with a real buyer.

Before you use this — this power does not sell anything by itself, and the Attorney must genuinely be a blood relation

In Suraj Lamp & Industries Ltd. v. State of Haryana, decided 11 October 2011 and reported at (2012) 1 SCC 656, the Supreme Court held that an interest in immovable property passes only under a duly stamped and registered instrument of transfer — not under a power of attorney, however widely worded. This deed lets the Attorney negotiate a sale and sign the actual Sale Deed later; it is that Sale Deed, once executed and registered, that transfers title, and a buyer who pays money against this power of attorney alone, without a registered Sale Deed following it, has no secure title.

The Note to item (f) of entry 48 names spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent and grandchild — on this drafter's reading, it does not reach a child's spouse, a sibling's spouse, an aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or cousin, however close the family in fact is. Naming a relationship outside that exact list and relying on the family stamp treatment anyway risks the deed being charged as a non-family sale-power power of attorney regardless of what the parties call the relationship.

Stamp paper and registration

Stamp paper needed

Yes

Typical stamp duty — Punjab

Ask us — Item (f) of entry 48, Schedule I-A, as substituted by the Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2023, confirms a NON-family sale-power power of attorney is charged 2% ad valorem — which tells a reader that a family-member sale-power deed is charged some OTHER, presumably lower, way, but does not itself state that figure. This drafter could not independently confirm whether the family case is a lower ad valorem percentage, a fixed sum, or something else, from a citable, dated source, and could not confirm it is the same Rs 2,000 the base General Power of Attorney template states for a deed with no sale power at all — that is a different instrument on a different line of the same table. Confirm the actual current figure at the Sub-Registrar or Joint Sub-Registrar of the tehsil, or the Deputy Commissioner as Collector of Stamps, before buying stamp paper.

Typical stamp duty — Chandigarh

Ask us — The Chandigarh Administration's published table charges a general power of attorney WITH power to sell at 3% of the property's value or the consideration, whichever is higher, whoever the attorney is — no family concession on this line at all. But that table is the same published document, created 17 May 2020, bearing no notification number and no date on its face, that the base General Power of Attorney template's own Rs 75 no-sale-power figure was already withdrawn to Ask us for — the identical evidentiary gap applies here, with more at stake given the sale power. Confirm the current figure at the Sub-Registrar, UT Chandigarh, 30 Bays Building, Sector 17, before executing.

Registration at the Sub-Registrar

No — Not compulsory — a power of attorney is not in the list in section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908. It is nonetheless strongly worth doing for a deed that carries a power to sell: a registered deed sits on a record a buyer's advocate, a bank or a Sub-Registrar's own staff can search before relying on it. The ACTUAL Sale Deed the Attorney later executes to convey the property is separately, and compulsorily, registrable under section 17(1)(b) of that Act — this deed's own registration, if chosen, does not substitute for that.

Notary or witnesses

Notarise it in every case. If the Principal signs outside India, execution before the Indian Consulate, High Commission or Embassy with jurisdiction is the safer route, and the three-month stamping clock under section 18 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 then runs from the day the document first reaches India, not from the day it was signed. Two witnesses attend in every case, and neither may be the Attorney, the Attorney's spouse, or anyone who benefits from the intended sale.

What you will need before you start

  • The Principal's and the Attorney's identity details, and exactly how the Attorney is related to the Principal — it must be one of the six blood-relation classes this deed is built for
  • Where you are signing — in India, or abroad before an Indian Mission — since that decides which execution route applies
  • A full description of the one property to be sold: khasra/killa number, area, boundaries and the title document behind it, plus whether it is freehold or leasehold/allotted
  • Whether the Attorney is restricted to a minimum sale price, and if so, what it is
  • How the sale consideration must be received — paid directly to the Principal's own account, or received by the Attorney and remitted within a stated number of days — and the account it must go to
  • Whether the power expires on a fixed date, and two witnesses who are not the Attorney, the Attorney's spouse, or a beneficiary of the sale

Common mistakes

  • Treating this deed as itself selling the property, or as adequate protection for a buyer who pays against it alone — nothing transfers until an actual registered Sale Deed follows, per the Suraj Lamp warning in the deed itself.
  • Naming an Attorney just outside the exact blood-relation list — a child's spouse or a sibling's spouse, for instance — and assuming the family stamp treatment still applies to them.
  • Assuming the Punjab family-rate stamp figure equals the Rs 2,000 no-sale-power rate the base General Power of Attorney template states, or guessing any other number, instead of confirming it at the Sub-Registrar or Collector of Stamps before buying stamp paper.

Questions people ask before using this document

Who can be named as the Attorney under this deed?

Only a blood relation of the Principal — spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent or grandchild. That is the exact class Punjab's stamp Note to item (f) of entry 48 treats as family for this kind of deed, and this template refuses to be used for anyone outside it. If the person you want to appoint falls outside that list, this is the wrong deed — use a Special Power of Attorney limited to that one sale instead, and budget for the non-family stamp rate.

Does this power of attorney by itself transfer my property to a buyer?

No. Following Suraj Lamp & Industries Ltd. v. State of Haryana, (2012) 1 SCC 656, an interest in immovable property passes only under a duly stamped and registered instrument of transfer, not under a power of attorney. This deed only lets the Attorney negotiate a sale and then execute and register the actual Sale Deed — it is that Sale Deed which transfers title, and a buyer should never pay money against this power of attorney alone without insisting on a registered Sale Deed to follow.

How much stamp duty does this deed attract in Punjab?

This drafter could not independently confirm a specific current figure for the family-member sale-power case, and it should not be assumed to be the Rs 2,000 the base General Power of Attorney template states — that figure prices a deed with no sale power at all, a different instrument on a different line of the stamp table. Confirm the actual current figure with the Sub-Registrar, Joint Sub-Registrar, or the Deputy Commissioner as Collector of Stamps before buying stamp paper.

What if I want to appoint someone who is not a blood relation to sell my property?

This is the wrong deed for that. It is built specifically for the blood-relation class and refuses the cheaper family treatment to anyone outside it — naming a wider relationship and relying on the family rate anyway risks the deed being charged as a non-family sale-power power of attorney regardless of the label used. Use a Special Power of Attorney limited to that one sale instead, and budget for the higher non-family rate.

Can I control the price the Attorney is allowed to sell my property for?

Yes, if you choose to. The deed offers a straight choice: let the Attorney sell at a price they judge fair having regard to the market and the Collector rate, or fix a minimum price below which the Attorney cannot sell without your further written consent. Fixing a minimum is a real safeguard for an owner who cannot personally monitor negotiations from a distance.

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Questions about this document

Does the General Power of Attorney with Power to Sell to a Blood Relation need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Stamp duty on a power of attorney is charged under entry 48 of Schedule I-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, and Schedule I-A stands differently in Punjab from the way it stands in the Union Territory of Chandigarh — the same split the base General Power of Attorney template states, reused here without re-deriving it, because this deed DOES carry a power to sell and so lands on the opposite line of the same table.

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Does the General Power of Attorney with Power to Sell to a Blood Relation need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Registration of this deed is NOT compulsory — a power of attorney is not in the list in section 17(1) of the Registration Act, 1908.

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