Indian Evidence Act : PRESUMPTION AS TO GAZETTES, NEWSPAPERS, PRIVATE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

Indian Evidence Act,1872

Act No : 1

Section : PRESUMPTION AS TO GAZETTES, NEWSPAPERS, PRIVATE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

SECTION 81: PRESUMPTION AS TO GAZETTES, NEWSPAPERS, PRIVATE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the London Gazette or 60[any Official Gazette, or the Government Gazette ] of any colony, dependency or possession of the British Crown, or to be a newspaper or journal, or to be a copy of a private Act of Parliament 24[of the United Kingdom] printed by the Queen’s Printer and of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody.