Admissibility of copy of entry as evidence

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Chapter IV INCORPORATION, DUTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF SOCIETIES

Statutory text

(1) A copy of any entry in any book, register or list, regularly kept in the course of business and in the possession of a society shall, if duly certified in such manner as may be prescribed, be admissible in evidence of the existence of the entry, the matters and transactions therein recorded in every case where, and to the same extent to which, the original entry would, if produced, have been admissible to prove such matter.
(2) In the case of such societies as the Administrator may by general or special order in writing direct, no officer of a society shall in any legal proceedings to which the society is not a party, be compelled to produce any of the society’s books, the contents of which may be proved under sub-section (1) or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions and accounts therein recorded, except by order of the court or a Judge made for special cause.

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