Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Registrar and other officers to be public servants. - The Registrar, a person exercising the powers of a Registrar, a person authorised to make an inspection under Section 34 or 36 or to hold an inquiry under Section 35, a liquidator and an arbitrator or arbitrators to whom any dispute is referred under Section 48, shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of Section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).