Section 26
The Bank and its officers to be deemed public officers.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Government securities and to the management by the Reserve Bank of India of the public debt of the Government.
For the purposes of section
124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), the provisions of Part IV of the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), relating to suits by or against public officers in their official
capacity, and the provisions of rule 27 of Order V, and rule 52 of Order XXI of the said Code,
the Bank and any officer of the Bank acting in his capacity as such shall be deemed to be a
public officer.