Co-Operative Societies Act 2008
237.
Proof of entries in books and other documents
1. A copy of any entry
in a book or other document that is required to be kept by this Act shall, if
certified by the Registrar be received in any legal proceedings, civil or
criminal, 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 any
such 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 can be proved under subsection (1), or to appear as a witness to prove
any matters, transactions or accounts therein recorded, unless the Court for
special reasons so directs.