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Certified copy fee

This works out what the sub registrar charges for a certified copy of a registered document, and separates it from the two things people confuse it with: an Index-2 copy and an encumbrance certificate. They are three different documents at three different prices.

Updated 11 August 2026. Amounts from the registration department's own citizen charter, captured 4 August 2026. That document carries no date.

Page size of the document

Number of pages

Number of copies

Copy fee0

Court fee ticket on Form No. 3Rs 3

Court fee ticket, Rs 300 per copy0

Total0

The department's own worked example is a twenty page document at 25.4 x 15.2 cm, which is twenty multiplied by fifteen, a copy fee of three hundred rupees. Leave the defaults as they are to reproduce it.

Three different documents, three different fees

People use "certified copy" loosely, and the registration department does not. A certified copy of a full registered document is priced per page by page size. A certified copy of Index-2, the summary entry, is a flat charge. An encumbrance certificate, which lists what is registered against a property, is a third thing again.

Index-2 is usually the one you want first. It is the one page summary of a registered transaction, showing the parties, the property and the consideration. It is cheaper than the full document and it is enough to tell you whether the full document is worth ordering.

All of these amounts come from the registration department's citizen charter, which is published undated. They are marked reported for that reason. Online applications through the iORA portal have their fees computed by the portal itself, and those amounts are not printed in the charter, so this page does not state them.

The three fees side by side

Copy and certificate fees. Source: registration department citizen charter on garvi.gujarat.gov.in, captured 4 August 2026. The document carries no date.
What you are asking for	Fee	Status
Certified copy of a registered document	Rs 3 court fee ticket, plus Rs 10 to Rs 20 per page by page size, plus a Rs 300 court fee ticket per copy	REPORTED
Certified copy of Index-2, offline	Rs 3 court fee ticket, plus Rs 20, plus a Rs 300 court fee ticket	REPORTED
Certified copy of Index-2, online through iORA	UNKNOWN	The portal computes it and the charter does not print the amounts
Encumbrance certificate	Rs 100	REPORTED

Page size bands for a full document

Certified copy page size bands. Source: registration department citizen charter on garvi.gujarat.gov.in, captured 4 August 2026. The document carries no date.
Page size	Per page
18.5 x 11.4 cm	Rs 10
25.4 x 15.2 cm	Rs 15
30.5 x 19.0 cm	Rs 20
34.3 x 21.6 cm	Rs 20

Where this comes from

Per page copy fees by page size, the Rs 3 court fee ticket and the Rs 300 per copy ticket REPORTED Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal. The documents themselves carry no date.
Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal, procedure GJ-DD-09, captured 4 August 2026. Official issuer, undated document.
Index-2 certified copy at Rs 3 plus Rs 20 plus Rs 300 offline REPORTED Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal. The documents themselves carry no date.
Procedure GJ-DD-08. Section 55 of the Registration Act 1908.
Encumbrance certificate at Rs 100 REPORTED Registration department citizen charter and FAQ on the Garvi portal. The documents themselves carry no date.
Procedure GJ-DD-06. The source states the amount in Gujarati.
Online iORA fees for Index-2 UNKNOWN
Computed by the portal at the time of application. The charter does not print them, so no figure is given here.

To work out what searching for the document costs in the first place, use the record search fee page.

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