law: Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002
  20. Central
  
  Registry.- 
  1.     
  
    The
  
  Central Government may, by notification, set up or cause to be set up from such
  
  date as it may specify in such notification, a registry to be known as the
  
  Central Registry with its own seal for the purposes of registration of transaction
  
  of securitisation and reconstruction of financial assets and creation of
  
  security interest under this Act.
  2.     
  
    The
  
  head office of the Central Registry shall be at such place as the Central
  
  Government may specify and for the purpose of facilitating registration of
  
  transactions referred to in sub-section (1), there may be established at such
  
  other places as the Central Government may think fit, branch offices of the
  
  Central Registry.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  Central Government may, by notification, define the territorial limits within
  
  which an office of the Central Registry may exercise its functions.
  4.     
  
    The
  
  provisions of this Act pertaining to the Central Registry shall be in addition
  
  to and not in derogation of any of the provisions contained in the Registration
  
  Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Merchant
  
  Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), the Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), the Motor
  
  Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988) and the Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000) or any
  
  other law requiring registration of charges and shall not affect the priority
  
  of charges or validity thereof under those Acts or laws.