74Public documents

The following documents are public documents: --

(1) Documents forming the acts, or records of the acts --

(i) of the sovereign authority,

(ii) of official bodies and tribunals, and

(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, ¹[of any part of India or of the Commonwealth], or of a foreign country;

(2) Public records kept ²[in any State] of private documents.