Lawgist79Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
The Court shall presume 1[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 2[of the Central Government or of a State Government, or by any officer3[in the State of Jammu and Kashmir ]who is duly authorized thereto by the Central Government]:
Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
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.
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1. Ins. by the A.O. 1948.
2. The original words beginning form "in British India and ending with the words to be genuine" have been successively amended by the A.O. 1937, the A.O. 1948 and the A.O. 1950 to read as above.
3. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for "in a Part B State".
- 79 Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
- 80 Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence
- 81 Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents
- 81A Presumption as to Gazettes in electronic forms
- 82 Presumption as to document admissible in England without proof of seal or signature
- 83 Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of Government
- 84 Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decisions
- 85 Presumptions as to powers-of-attorney
- 85A Presumption as to electronic agreements
- 85B Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signatures
- 85C Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates
- 86 Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records
- 87 Presumption as to books, maps and charts
- 88 Presumption as to telegraphic messages
- 88A Presumption as to electronic messages
- 89 Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced
- 90 Presumption as to documents thirty years old
- 90A Presumption as to electronic records five years old
