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Public documents.––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, 3[of any part of India or of the Commonwealth], or of a foreign country; (2) Public records kept 4[in any State] of private documents.