Section 41
Admissibility of copy of entry as evidence.
The Delhi Co-operative Societies Act, 1972
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to co-operative societies in the Union territory of Delhi.
(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.
(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.