Evidence Act Section 74 is now BSA Section 74(1)
- Evidence Act 74 (Public documents) → BSA 74(1) Public and private documentsIEA 74 and 75 are merged into BSA 74.
Verbatim · BSA 74(1)(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.
Read the full BSA Section 74 →
The BSA replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 from 1 July 2024.
Old-to-new correspondence is indicative and not always one-to-one; read the new text itself.