BSA Section 74: Public and private documents

All other documents are private.

(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.

The following documents are public documents: -- (1) 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, 1 [of any part of India or of the Commonwealth], or of a foreign country; (2) Public records kept 2 [in any State] of private documents. Official footnote 1. The original words "whether of British India, or of any other part of Her Majesty's Dominios" have successively been amended by the A.O. 1948 and the A.O. 1950 to read as above. 2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for "in any Province"

(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.