BSA · Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 78 — Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.
Replaces Evidence Act Section 79.
(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.
Nearby sections
- 75 Certified copies of public documents.
- 76 Proof of documents by production of certified copies.
- 77 Proof of other official documents.
- 79 Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence, etc.
- 80 Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents.
- 81 Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic or digital record.
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