Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023
Public documents :
Section 74 :
Public and private documents :
(See section 74,75 of IEA 1872)
(1) The following documents are public documents:—
(a) 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 of India or of a foreign country;
(b) public records kept in any State or Union territory of private documents.
(2) All other documents except the documents referred to in sub-section (1) are private.