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Section 36: Admissibility of copy of entry as evidence

The Punjab Co-Operative Societies Act, 1961Union territory Act of Chandigarh · Act 25 of 1961

(1) A copy of any entry in a book of 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 THE PUNJAB COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES ACT, 1961 39 8TH FINAL PRINT AS ON 05.10.2006 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 society or the liquidator is not a party, be compelled to produce any of the society’s 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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ActThe Punjab Co-Operative Societies Act, 1961
Section36
Marginal noteAdmissibility of copy of entry as evidence
JurisdictionUnion territory of Chandigarh
StatusIn force as published by the source

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