that the document is genuine; that any statements as to the circumstances under which it
was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true, and that such
evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.
92. Presumption as to genuineness of documents kept under any law. The Court shall presume
the genuineness of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by
any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from
proper custody.
93. Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of Government. The Court shall
presume that map or plans purporting to be made by the authority of the Federal Government or any
Provincial Government were so made, and are accurate; but maps or plans made for the purposes of
any cause must be proved to be accurate.
94. Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decision. The Court shall presume the
genuineness of every book purporting to be printed or published under the authority of the
Government of any country, and to contain any of the laws of that country, and of every book
purporting to contain reports of decisions of the Courts of such country.
95. Presumption as to powersofattorney. The Court shall presume that every document
purporting to be a powerof attorney, and to have been executed before, and authenticated by, a
notary public, or any Court, Judge, Magistrate, Pakistan Consul or ViceConsul, or representative of
the Federal Government, was so executed and authenticated.
96. Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records.__(1) The Court may
presume that any document purporting to be a certified copy of any judicial record of any country not
forming part of Pakistan is genuine and accurate, if the document purports to be certified in any
manner which is certified by any representative of the Federal Government in or for such country to
be the manner commonly in use in that country for the certification of copies of Judicial records.
(2) An officer who, with respect to any territory or place not forming part of Pakistan, is a
political Agent therefor, as defined in section 3, clause (40), of the General Clauses Act, 1897(X of
1897) shall for the purposes of clause (1), be deemed to be a representative of the Federal
Government in or for the country comprising that territory or place.
97. Presumption as to books, maps and charts. The Court may presume that any book to which
it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or
chart, the statements of which are relevant facts and which is produced for its inspection, was written
and published by the person, and at the time and place, by whom or at which it purports to have been
written or published.
98. Presumption as to telegraphic messages. The Court may presume that message, forwarded
from a telegraph office to the person to whom such message purports to be addressed, corresponds
with a message delivered for transmission at the office from which the message purports to be sent;
but the Court shall not make any presumption as to the person by whom such message was delivered
for transmission.
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