The Evidence Act 1872 was replaced by the BSA 2023 (in force 2024-07-01); no verified section mapping on file for Section 81 — confirm the corresponding provision (savings: Section 170, BSA 2023).
The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the London Gazette or [any Official Gazette, or the Government Gazette] of any colony, dependency or possession of the British Crown, or to be a newspaper or journal, or to be a copy of a private Act of Parliament [of the United Kingdom] printed by the Queen's Printer and 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. Substituted by A. O. 1937. Prior to the substitution it read as:- "the Gazette of India or the Government Gazette of any L.G., or". Inserted by the A. O. 1950.