The Evidence Act 1872 was replaced by the BSA 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 74 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 170, BSA 2023).
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, of any part of India or of the Common-wealth, or of a foreign country; (2) public records kept [in any State] of private documents. Substituted by the A. O. 1950. Prior to the substitution it read as:- "in any province".