following public documents may be proved as follows: —

(1) Acts, orders or notifications of the Federal Government in any of its departments, or of any Provincial Government or any department of any Provincial 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;

(2) the proceedings of the Legislatures,—by the journal of those bodies respectively, or by published Acts or abstracts, or by copies purporting to be printed by order of the Government concerned ;

(3) 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 Federal Act; 1 Added new “Clause

(6) in Article 85” by Ord. No. LI of 2002, s. 29 and schedule.

(4) the proceedings of a municipal body in Pakistan,—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 ;

(5) 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 a Pakistan 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. PRESUMPTIONS AS TO DOCUMENTS