law: Registration Act, 1908
  25. Provision where delay in presentation is unavoidable
  (1) If ,owing to urgent necessity or unavoidable accident, any
  
  document executed, or copy of a decree or order made, in 18[India] is not
  
  presented for registration till after the expiration of the time hereinbefore
  
  prescribed in that behalf, the Registrar, in cases where the delay in
  
  presentation does not exceed four months, may direct that, on payment of a fine
  
  not exceeding ten times the amount of the proper registration-fee, such
  
  document shall be accepted for registration.
  (2) Any application for such direction may be lodged with
  
  Sub-Registrar, who shall forthwith forward it to the Registrar to whom he is
  
  subordinate.