Section 79 · Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
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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.
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.
In the new law
IEA 79BSA 78
78. Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.
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