BSA Section 74 — Public and private documents

CHAPTER V OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE — Public documents

General

Official Text

(1) The following documents are public documents:—

(a) documents forming the acts, or records of the acts—

(i) of the sovereign authority;

(ii) of official bodies and tribunals; and

(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive of India or of a foreign country;

(b) public records kept in any State or Union territory of private documents.

(2) All other documents except the documents referred to in sub-section (1) are private.

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  • IEA §74 — Public and private documents
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