THE COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS EVIDENCE (MAHARASHTRA EXTENSION) ACT, 1960
Maharashtra Act No. 20 of 1960
[Dated 24th October, 1960]
For Statement of Objects a and Reasons, see Maharashtra Government Gazette, 1960, Part V, page 16.
An Act to extend the Commercial Documents Evidence Act, 1939, throughout the State of Maharashtra.
Whereas it is expedient to extend the Commercial Documents Evidence Act, 1939, throughout the State of Maharashtra; It is hereby enacted in the Eleventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :-
1. Short title. - This Act may be called the Commercial Documents Evidence (Maharashtra Extension) Act, 1960.
Object & Reasons
Statement of Objects and Reasons. - Certain commercial documents of various kinds are by the practice of merchants accepted as evidence taken as prima facie correct, but in a Court of law they cannot, in the absence of consent by the parties, be admitted in evidence without testimony as to their genuineness or the correctness of the Statement made therein. Such documents are not admissible in evidence under section 32 or any other provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, without further proof. This Act provides that the commercial documents which are accepted as prima facie correct in commercial circles may be admitted in evidence without formal proof.
2. Extension of Act XXX of 1939 throughout the State of Maharashtra. - The Commercial Documents Evidence Act, 1939, as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act in the Bombay and Vidarbha areas of the State of Maharashtra, is hereby extended to, and shall in virtue of such extension be in force in, the rest of the State of Maharashtra.
3. Amendment of section 1 of Act XXX of 1939. - In the Commercial Documents Evidence Act, 1939, in section 1, in sub-section (2), after the word "States" at the end, the words "other than the Hyderabad area of the State of Maharashtra" shall be added.
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