79.
Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.- The
Court shall presume 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 an officer
of the Central Government or of a State Government, or by
any officer in the Slate 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.
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