Q.S.O Article 85 | Public documents.

Q.S.O Article 85

Public documents.

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 Pakistan, or of a foreign country;

(2) public records kept in Pakistan of private documents;

(3) documents forming part of the records of judicial proceedings ;

(4) documents required to be maintained by a public servant under any law ; and

(5) registered documents the execution whereof is not disputed.

(6) certificates deposited in a repository pursuant to the provisions of the Electronic Transactions Ordinance, 2002.