Entries in books of registered co-operative society shall be received as prima facie evidence

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(1) A copy of any entry in a book of registered co-operative society, regularly kept in the course of business shall, if certified by the Chairman/Secretary of the Co-operative Society be received in any suit or legal proceeding as prima facie evidence of the existence of such entry and shall be admitted as evidence of the matters, transaction and accounts therein recorded in every case to the same extent as the original entry itself is admissible.
(2) No officer or liquidator of a registered co-operative society and no officer in whose custody the books of a registered cooperative society are deposited after liquidation shall in any legal proceedings to which the co-operative society or liquidator is not a party, be compelled to produce any of the co-operative society’s books the contents of which can be proved under sub-section
(1) or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transaction and accounts therein recorded unless specially so directed by an order of the Court or the Arbitrator.

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