IEA §39 → BSA §33

8[39. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.––When any statement of which evidence is given 1. Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 92 and the Second Schedule, for “entries in the books of account” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000). 2. Subs. by s. 92 and the Second Schedule, ibid., for “record” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000). 3. Subs. by the A.O. 1948, for “any Government in British India”. 4. Ins. by the A. O. 1950. 5. The original words were “Act of the Governor General of India in Council or of the Governors in Council of Madras or Bombay, or of the Lieutenant Governor in Council of Bengal, or in a notification of the Government appearing in the Gazette of India, or in the Gazette of any L.G., or in any printed paper purporting to be the London Gazette or the Government Gazette of any colony or possession of the Queen, is a relevant fact”. This was amended first by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914), and then by the A.O. 1937, the A.O. 1948 and the A.O. 1950 to read as above. 6. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for “an Act of the Legislature of a Part A State or a Part C State”. 7. The “last paragraph” omitted by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule. 8. Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 92 and the Second Schedule, for “s. 39” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000). forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.] JUDGMENTS OF COURTS OF JUSTICE WHEN RELEVANT