Section 77 of Evidence Act "Proof of documents by production of certified copies"
Such certified copies may be produced in proof of the contents of the public documents or parts of the public documents of which they purport to be copies.
Section 78 of Evidence Act "Proof of
other official documents"
The following public documents may be proved as follows:-
(1) Acts, orders or notifications of [the Central
Government] in any of its departments, [or of the Crown
Representative] or of any State Government or any department
of any State Government,-
by the records of the departments, certified by the heads of those departments respectively, or by any document purporting to be printed by order of any such Government [or as the case may be, of the Crown Representative];
(2) the proceedings of the Legislatures,-
By the journals of those bodies respectively, or by
published Acts o abstracts, or by copies purporting to be
printed [by order of the Government concerned];
(3) proclamations, orders or regulations issued by 53 Her
Majesty or by the Privy Council. Or by any department of Her
Majesty s Government,--
by copies or extracts contained in the London Gazette, or
purporting to be printed by the Queen s printer;
(4) the acts of the Executive or the proceedings of the
Legislature of a foreign country,--
by journals published by their authority, or commonly
received in that country as such, or by a copy certified
under the seal of the country or sovereign, or by a
recognition thereof in some [Central Act];
(5) the proceedings of a municipal body in [a State],--
by a copy of such proceedings, certified by the legal keeper
thereof, or by a printed book purporting to be published by
the authority of such body;
(6) Public documents of any other class in a foreign
country,-
by the original , or by a copy certified by the legal keeper
thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a Notary
Public, or of [an India Consul] or diplomatic agent that the
copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal
custody of the original, and upon proof of the character of
the document according to the law of the foreign country.