Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
Chapter 5: Of documentary evidence
(1) The Court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document, which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact and which purports to be duly certified by any officer of the Central Government or of a State Government:
Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2) The Court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified, held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such paper.
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (Act No. 47 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
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- 81Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic or digital recordEvidence Act 81A
- 82Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of GovernmentEvidence Act 83
- 83Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decisionsEvidence Act 84
- 84Presumption as to powers-of-attorney