Proof of other official documents

Proof of other official documents.--The following public documents may be proved as follows :--

1. (1) Acts, Regulations, orders or notifications of the Executive Government of the State or of India in any of its departments, or of any Government of a State within the Indian Union or any department of Government of a State within the Indian Union-- 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. (2) the proceedings of the Legislatures,-- by the journals of those bodies respectively or by published Acts, Regulations or abstracts, or by copies purporting to be printed by order of the Government concerned:
3. (3) proclamations, orders or regulations issued by His Highness, the Governor or His Majesty or by the Privy Council, or by any department of His Majesty's or the Jammu and Kashmir Government,-- by copies or extracts contained in the London Gazette, or purporting to be printed by the King's Printer, or in the Jammu and Kashmir Government Gazette:
4. (4) the Acts, Regulations 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 Central Act of India:
5. (5) the proceedings of a municipal body in the State or India,-- 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:
6. (6) 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 an Indian 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.