Indian Evidence Act, 1872
76. Certified copies of public documents
Every public officer
having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to
inspect, shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal
fees therefor, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy
that it is a true copy of such document of part thereof, as the case may be,
and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such document of part
thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed
by such officer with his name and his name and his official title, and shall be
sealed, whenever such officer is authorized by law to make use of a seal; and
such copies so certified shall be called certified copies.
Explanation- Any officer who, by
the ordinary course of official duty, is authorized to deliver such copies,
shall be deemed to have the custody of such documents within the meaning of
this section.