Relevancy of statement as to fact of public nature contained in certain Acts or notifications

Relevancy of statement as to fact of public nature contained in certain Acts or notifications.—When the Court has to form an opinion as to the existence of any fact of a public nature, any statement of it, made in a recital contained in any Act of Parliament [of the United Kingdom] or in any Act or Regulation of any [Indian Administration] or of the State or in a notification of the Government, appearing in the Gazette of India, or in the Gazette of Government of any State [within the Indian Union] or of the State 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.