Section 81. Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents
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Act
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Section number
81
Section reader
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
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 Queens 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.
