Section 74(1)(iii) in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
(iii)of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, [of any part of India or of the Commonwealth] [The original words "whether of British India, or of any other part of Her Majesty's dominions" have successively been amended by A.O. 1948 and A.O. 1950 to read as above.], or of a foreign country;