Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam

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THE BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023 ACT NO. 47 OF 2023 [25th December, 2023.] An Act to consolidate and to provide for general rules and principles of evidence for fair trial. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— (1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. (2) It applies to all judicial proceedings in or before any Court, including Courts-martial, but not to affidavits presented to any Court or officer, nor to proceedings before an arbitrator. (3) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. Footnotes ^ 1st day of July, 2024, vide notification No. S.O. 849(E), dated, 23rd February, 2024, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). (1) In this Adhiniyam, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “Court” includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorised to take evidence; (b) “conclusive proof” means when one fact is declared by this Adhiniyam to be conclusive proof of another, the Court shall, on proof of the one fact, regard the other as proved, and shall not allow evid