Companies Act, 2013
399.
Inspection,
production and evidence of documents kept by Registrar.
1. Save as otherwise
provided elsewhere in this Act, any person may—
a.
inspect
by electronic means any documents kept by the Registrar in accordance with the
rules made, being documents filed or registered by him in pursuance of this
Act, or making a record of any fact required or authorised to be recorded or
registered in pursuance of this Act, on payment for each inspection of such
fees as may be prescribed;
b.
require
a certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or extract of any
other document or any part of any other document to be certified by the
Registrar, on payment in advance of such fees as may be prescribed:
Provided
that the rights conferred by this sub-section shall be exercisable—
i.
in
relation to documents delivered to the Registrar with a prospectus in pursuance
of section 26, only during the fourteen days beginning with the date of
publication of the prospectus; and at other times, only with the permission of
the Central Government; and
ii.
in
relation to documents so delivered in pursuance of clause (b ) of
subsection (1 ) of section 388, only during the fourteen days beginning
with the date of the prospectus; and at other times, only with the permission
of the Central Government.
1.
2. No process for
compelling the production of any document kept by the Registrar shall issue
from any court or the Tribunal except with the leave of that court or the
Tribunal and any such process, if issued, shall bear thereon a statement that
it is issued with the leave of the court or the Tribunal.
3. A copy of, or extract
from, any document kept and registered at any of the offices for the
registration of companies under this Act, certified to be a true copy by the
Registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove), shall,
in all legal proceedings, be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with
the original document.