The following documents are public documents :-

(1)

Documents forming the acts or records of the acts -

(i) of the sovereign authority;

(ii) of official bodies and tribunals; and

(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, [of any part of India or of the Commonwealth] [The original words "whether of British India, or of any other part of Her Majesty's dominions " have successively been amended by A.O. 1948 and A.O. 1950 to read as above.], or of a foreign country;

(2)

public records kept [in any State] [Substituted by A.O. 1950, for "in any Province ".] of private documents.