¹[16A. Assistance to borrower when to operate or a charge in the property offered as security.— (1) Where any person or institution seeks any financial assistance from the National Housing Bank on the security of any immovable property belonging to him or to that institution or on the security of the property of some other person whose property is offered as a collateral security for such assistance, such person or institution or, as the case may be, such other person may execute a written declaration in the form set out in the Third Schedule to this Act stating therein the particulars of the immovable property which is proposed to be offered as security, or as the case may be, collateral security, for such assistance and agreeing that the dues relating to the assistance, if granted, shall be a charge on such immovable property and, if on receipt of such declaration, the National Housing Bank grants any financial assistance to the person or institution aforesaid, the dues relating to such assistance shall, without prejudice to the rights of any other creditor holding any prior charge or mortgage in respect of the immovable property so specified, be, by virtue of the provisions of this section, a charge on the property specified in the declaration aforesaid.
(2) Where any further immovable property is offered by a person or an institution as security for the financial assistance referred to in sub-section (1), such person or institution may execute a fresh declaration, as far as may be in the form set out in the Third Schedule to this Act, whereupon the dues relating to such assistance shall, by virtue of the provisions of this section, also be a charge on the property specified in such fresh declaration.
(3) A declaration made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) may be varied or revoked at any time by the person or institution as aforesaid, with the prior approval of the National Housing Bank.
(4) Every declaration made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be a document registrable as an agreement under the provisions of the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908) and no such declaration shall have effect unless it is so registered.]

1. Ins. by Act 15 of 2000, s. 9 (w.e.f. 12-6-2000).