Evidence Act · Chapter VI · Of the exclusion of oral by documentary evidence
Evidence Act section 100, “Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills”, is now BSA section 103 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, in force from 1 July 2024.
Now BSA section 103, with the same saving for wills; the reference is to the Indian Succession Act, 1925.
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Nothing in this Chapter contained shall be taken to affect any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1865 (10 of 1865) as to the construction of wills.
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Nothing in this Chapter shall be taken to affect any of the provisions of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925) as to the construction of wills.
The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.
The BSA repealed the Indian Evidence Act from 1 July 2024 (section 170(1)). Any application, trial, inquiry, investigation, proceeding or appeal pending immediately before that date is dealt with under the Evidence Act as it then stood, as if the BSA had not come into force (section 170(2)).
