BSA §88

The Court may presume that any document purporting to be a certified.

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BSA §88
The Court may presume that any document purporting to be a certified.

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(1) The Court may presume that any document purporting to be a certified copy of any judicial record of any country beyond India is genuine and accurate, if the document purports to be certified in any manner which is certified by any representative of the Central Government in or for such country to be the manner commonly in use in that country for the certification of copies of judicial records.

(2) An officer who, with respect to any territory or place outside India is a Political Agent therefor, as defined in clause

(43) of section 3 of the General ClausesAct, 1897, shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a representative of the Central Government in and for the country comprising that territory or place.

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BSA Section 88 (The Court may presume that any document purporting to be a certified.) was identified by the audit as not appearing in any edge in the current corpus. A predecessor identification (under IPC / CrPC / IEA) has not been completed and requires secondary review. This section may correspond to a pre-existing provision in the old code, may be a structural reorganization, or may be a genuinely new provision. This draft placeholder edge ensures section coverage in the corpus while flagging it for secondary review during the editorial verification pass.

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