IEA 81 — Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the London
Gazette  or

[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

[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.

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