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Commercial Documents Evidence Act, 1939 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1939

.....The result is that a party desirous of delaying the proceedings can often insist on the other side getting Commissions issued to take evidence as to facts which are for all practical purposes sufficiently established by the documents in question. It is proposed to undertake legislation on the lines of the Bankers Books Evidence Act, 1891, so as to provide that commercial documents which are accepted as prima facie correct in commercial circles may be admitted in evidence without formal proof. A list of such documents has been prepared in consultation with Commercial Associations and Local Governments. and in included in the Schedule to the Bill, power being reserved to the Government of India to add to the list from time to time and to remove items from it." -Gazette of India, 1937 Pat V. p. 119 An Act to amend the Law of Evidence with respect to certain commercial documents. Whereas it is expedient to amend the Law of Evidence with respect to certain commercial documents; It is hereby enacted as follows:- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND EXTENT This Act has been applied to the Darjeeling district, with effect from the 8th February, 1940, by the late Bengal Government.....