The Evidence Act 1872 was replaced by the BSA 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 35 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 170, BSA 2023).
An entry in any public or other official book, register or record, stating a fact in issue or relevant fact, and made by a public servant in the discharge of his official duty, or by any other person in performance of a duty specially enjoined by the law of the country in which such book, register or [record or an electronic record] is kept, is itself a relevant fact. Substituted by the Act 21 of 2000, S.92 and Schedule II, (w.e.f. 17/10/2000). Prior to the substitution it read as:- "record".