BSA74
BSA Section 74: Public and private documents
Ch V · Of Documentary Evidence
Gazette p.32
Verbatim · BSA74. Public and private documents.—(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.
Corresponds (indicatively) to Evidence Act 74, 75 of the repealed Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act → BSA table
Cite as: Section 74, Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (Act No. 47 of 2023)