Section 81APresumption as to Gazettes in digital forms

s. 81A

81A. Presumption as to Gazettes in digital forms [The Court shall presume the genuineness of every digital record purporting to be the Official Gazette, or purporting to be digital record directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such digital record is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody. Explanation.-Digital records are said to be in proper custody if they are in the place in which, and under the care of the person with whom, they naturally be; but no custody is improper if it is proved to have had a legitimate origin, or the circumstances of the particular case are such as to render such an origin probable.]

1. 54. Section 81A was inserted by section 15 of the Evidence (Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act No XX of 2022).