Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
BSA Section 20
When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant
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BSA Section 20 deals with when oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant and replaces Evidence Act 22.
Bare act text — BSA 20
20. When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant.
Oral admissions as to the contents of a document are not relevant, unless and until the party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of the contents of such document under the rules hereinafter contained, or unless the genuineness of a document produced is in question
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What was BSA Section 20 in the Evidence Act?
BSA Section 20 (When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant) replaces Section 22 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act 22 is now BSA 20.
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Nearby BSA sections
- BSA 15 — Admission defined
- BSA 16 — Admission by party to proceeding or his agent
- BSA 17 — Admissions by persons whose position must be proved as against party to suit
- BSA 18 — Admissions by persons expressly referred to by party to suit
- BSA 19 — Proof of admissions against persons making them, and by or on their behalf
- BSA 21 — Admissions in civil cases when relevant
- BSA 22 — Confession caused by inducement, threat, coercion or promise, when irrelevant in criminal proceeding
- BSA 23 — Confession to police officer
- BSA 24 — Consideration of proved confession affecting person making it and others jointly under trial for same offence
- BSA 25 — Admissions not conclusive proof, but may estop