Section 10 in Bihar Documents Writers' Licensing Rules, 1968
10. Conditions of licence.
(1)The following conditions shall be deemed to be attached to the document writers' licence:-(a)that the licensee shall abide by the rules relating to the licensing document writers;(b)that he shall maintain the registers, receipt books and other records prescribed by these rules to be maintained or required to be maintained by the licensing authority from time to time or by the Inspector-General of Registration;(c)that he shall not demand or receive any sum from parties in the name of any person connected with the registration office;(d)that he shall render true and correct account of the money that he receives from his employer;(e)that he shall write or cause to be written documents legibly and in accordance with the instructions that may be issued from time to time by the licensing authority or the Inspector-General of Registration;(f)that he shall instruct the parties or their duly authorised agents or petition writers to pay the fees in person direct to the Registering Officers and not through any other agency;(g)that he shall write or cause to be written documents carefully, properly and in clean and unambiguous terms;(h)that he shall obey any direction that may from time to time be issued by the licensing authority or the Inspector-General of Registration regarding the preparation and transcription of documents or copies for registration;(i)that he shall sign his name on every document written by him or caused to be written by the apprentice attached to him and shall enter therein his name, licence number and serial number of document given in the register to be maintained by him under these rules and the fees charged by him.(2)The following conditions shall be deemed to be attached to an apprentice's licence:-(a)an apprentice shall write documents legibly, correctly and neatly;(b)he shall not act as a tout;(c)he shall not receive any money or fees direct from the parties;(d)he shall be attached to only one of the licensed document writers.(e)he shall attend the office of the document writer to which he is attached and shall carry out such duties in respect of transcribing deeds as may be given to him;(f)he shall be remunerated by the document writer in respect of the documents which he transcribes at the dictation or direction of the licensed document writer;(g)he shall attest the document in the following manner after the attestation of the document writer to whom he is attached-"scribed by........................................(full name and signature, apprentice licence no................................of the district, of.....................sub-registration office.........................Note. - In case the deed is scribed by the document writer himself, no attestation by the apprentice shall be necessary.
