Section 19: Presumption as to records or property in certain cases

19. Presumption as to records or property in certain cases.— Where any document of public record is found in the possession or control of any person in the course of a survey or a search [under this Act] or where any records have been received from any place outside Pakistan duly authenticated by such authority or person and in such manner as may be prescribed in the course of proceedings under this Act, the Court or the investigating [or prosecuting] agency as the case may be, shall (a) presume, that the signature and every other part of such record which purports to be in the handwriting of any particular person or which the Court may reasonably assume to have been signed, by or to be in the hand writing of, any particular person, is in that person's hand writing; and in the case of a record executed or attested, that it was executed or attested by the person by whom it purports to have so executed or attested; and (b) admit the document in evidence, notwithstanding that it is not duly stamped, if such document is otherwise admissible in evidence.

Effective date: 2010-03-27

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