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Section 50: Proof of entries in societies book

The Puducherry Co-Operative Societies Act, 1972Union territory Act of Puducherry · Act 7 of 1973

(1) A copy of any entry in a book of a registered society regularly kept in the course of business shall, if duly 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 or liquidator of a registered society and no officer in whose office the books of a registered 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 the contents of which can be proved under subsection (1), or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions, and accounts therein recorded, unless by order of the court or the arbitrator made for a special cause.

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CHAPTER – VI STATE AID TO REGISTERED SOCIETIES

Where this provision sits

ActThe Puducherry Co-Operative Societies Act, 1972
Section50
Marginal noteProof of entries in societies book
JurisdictionUnion territory of Puducherry
StatusIn force as published by the source

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