Copies of memorandum and articles of association and of regulations, etc., to be kept for inspection at office of Company in Bombay, in Secretariat and office of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. Copy to be evidence

Copies of the memorandum and articles of association of the said Company and of every other instrument registered under the said "Joint Stock Companies Acts, 1856 and 1857", as constituting the regulations of the said Company, and a copy of every special resolution of a general meeting whereby any change shall have been, or at any time shall be, made in the regulations of the said Company, shall be kept at the office of the said Company [in the Greater Bombay], and shall be open to the inspection of all persons during the usual hours of business of the said office; and copies of such memorandum and articles of association and of every other such instrument, and of every special resolution as aforesaid, shall also be deposited by the Company as soon as it can be done after the passing of this Act, or after the making of any such special resolution hereafter to be made, in the Bombay Secretariat and also in the office of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, or, if there be no such officer, in the office of the person having the custody of the records of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, and shall there be filed; and an examined copy of any such filed copy as aforesaid, certified by and under the hand of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, or of the person having the custody of the records of the said High Court, shall be good and sufficient evidence of such memorandum or articles of association, instrument or special resolution, in all actions, suits and proceedings whatsoever, whethr civil or criminal, to be had in any court of justice, whether established by Royal Charter or not, or before any Magistrate or revenue or other officer, and whether acting judicially, or in any proceeding preliminary to a judicial inquiry throughout the territories within or subject to the Presidency of Bombay.