Lawgist41Admissibility of copy of entry as evidence
(1) A copy of any entry in a book of a co-operative society regularly kept in the course of its business shall, if certified in such manner as may be prescribed, be received in any suit or legal proceedings as prima facie evidence of the existence of such entry, and shall be admitted as evidence of the matters, transactions and accounts therein recorded in every case where, and to the same extent as, the original entry itself is admissible.
(2) No officer of a co-operative society and no officer in whose office the books of a co-operative society are deposited after liquidation shall, in any legal proceedings to which the soceity or the liquidator is not a party, be compelled to produce any of the societys books or documents the contents of which can be proved under this section, or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions and accounts therein recorded, except under order of the court or the arbitrator made for special cause.
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- 35 Co-operative societies to be bodies corporate
- 36 First charge of co-operative society on certain assets
- 37 Charge on immovable property of members borrowing loans from certain societies
- 38 Charge and set-off in respect of share or contribution or interest of members
- 39 Share or contribution or interest not liable to attachment
- 40 Register of members
- 41 Admissibility of copy of entry as evidence
- 42 Exemption from compulsory registration of instruments
- 43 Exemption from certain taxes, fees and duties
- 44 Deduction from salary to meet co-operative society's claim in certain cases
- 45 Other forms of State aid to co-operative societies
