Any person may inspect all documents filed with the Registrar under this Act on payment of a fee of one rupee for each inspection; and any person may require a copy or extract of any document or any part of any document, to be certified by the Registrar, on payment of two annas for every hundred words of such copy or extract; and such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of the matters therein contained in all legal proceedings whatever.
STATE AMENDMENTS
Union territory of ladakh
Section 19.--For "Registrar", substitute "Registrar of Societies.
[Vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Second Order, 2020, vide Notification No. S.O. 3805(E), dated (26-10-2020).]
Arunachal Pradesh
In section 19, for the words "two annas", the words fifteen paise" shall be substituted.
[Vide Arunachal Pradesh Act 6 of 1978, s. 2 and the Schedule]
Uttarakhand
Substitution of section 19.--In Principal Act section 19 shall be substituted as follows, namely:--
"19. Inspection of documents, Certified copies.--Any person may inspect all document files with the Registrar under this act on payment of a fee of thee hundred rupees for each inspection; and any person may require a digitally signed copy or extract of any documents or any part of any document or any part of any documents, to be digitally certified by the Registrar on payment of rupees one hundred as ordinary fee and rupees two such copy or extract and digital signed copy shall prima facie evidence of the matters therein contained in all legal proceedings whatever.
Provided further that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, increase from time to time the fee payable under this sub-section.
[Vide Uttarakhand Act 4 of 2019, s. 5]
Haryana
Amendment of Section 19 of Central Act 21 of 1860.-- In Section 19 of the principal Act,--
(i) for the words "one rupee", the words "twenty rupees" shall be substituted ; and
(ii) for the words "twenty-five naye paise for every hundred words", the words "ten rupees per page or part thereof" shall be substituted.
[Vide Haryana Act 14 of 2001, s. 4]