88. Proof of documents by production of certified Copies. Such certified copies may be
produced in proof of the contents of the public documents or parts of the public documents of which
they purport to be copies.
89. Proof of other public documents. The following public documents may be proved as
follows: —
(1) Acts orders or notifications of the Federal Government in any of its departments, or of
any Provincial Government or any department of any Provincial Government—by the
records of the departments, certified by the heads of those departments respectively, or
by any document purporting to be printed by order of any such Government;
(2) the proceedings of the Legislatures,—by the journal of those bodies respectively, or by
published Acts or abstracts, or by copies purporting to be printed by order of the
Government concerned ;
(3) the Acts of the Executive or the proceedings of the Legislature of a foreign country,— by
journals published by their authority, or commonly received in that country as such or by
a copy certified under the seal of the country or sovereign or by a recognition thereof in
some Federal Act;
(4) the proceedings of a municipal body in Pakistan,—by a copy of such proceedings,
certified by the legal keeper thereof, or by a printed book purporting to be published by
the authority of such body ;
(5) public documents of any other class in a foreign country,—by the original, or by a copy
certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a notary public,
or of a Pakistan Consul or diplomatic agent, that the copy is duly certified by the officer
having the legal custody of the original, and upon proof of the character of the document
according to the law of foreign country.
PRESUMPTION AS TO DOCUMENTS
90. Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.__ (1) The Court shall presume 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
of the Federal Government or a Provincial Government to be genuine:
Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the
manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2) 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 document.
91. Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence. Whenever any document is
produced before any Court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part
of the evidence, given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorized by law to
take such evidence or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or accused person, taken in
accordance with law, and purporting to be signed by any Judge or Magistrate or by any such officer
as aforesaid, the Court shall presume—
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