law: Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 
  28. Registration of agreements 
  (1) Where the amount of any lump sum payable as compensation has
  
  been settled by agreement whether by way of redemption of a half-monthly
  
  payment or otherwise or where any compensation has been so settled as being
  
  payable to a woman or a person under a legal disability a memorandum thereof
  
  shall be sent by the employer to the Commissioner who shall on being satisfied
  
  as to its genuineness record the memorandum in a register in the prescribed
  
  manner :
  Provided  that -
  (a) no such memorandum shall be recorded before seven days after
  
  communication by the Commissioner of notice to the parties concerned;
  [Clause (b) omitted by Act 5 of 1929.]
  (c) the Commissioner may at any time rectify the register;
  (d) where it appears to the Commissioner that an agreement as to
  
  the payment of a lump sum whether by way of redemption of a half-monthly
  
  payment or otherwise or an agreement as to the amount of compensation payable
  
  to a woman or a person under a legal disability ought not to be registered by
  
  reason of the inadequacy of the sum or amount or by reason of the agreement
  
  having been obtained by fraud or undue influence or other improper means he may
  
  refuse to record the memorandum of the agreement and may make such order
  
  including an order as to any sum already paid under the agreement as he thinks
  
  just in the circumstances.
  (2) An agreement for the payment of compensation which has been
  
  registered under sub-section (1) shall be enforceable under this Act
  
  notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Contract Act 1872 (9 of 1872)
  
  or in any other law for the time being in force.