Section 397: Admissibility of certain documents as evidence
This section is for making certain documents admissible as evidence in proceedings under the Act without needing the original document.
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What the section says
In plain terms
Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any document reproducing or derived from returns and documents filed by a company with the Registrar on paper or in electronic form or stored on any electronic data storage device or computer readable media by the Registrar, and authenticated by the Registrar or any other officer empowered by the Central Government in such manner as may be prescribed, shall be deemed to be a document for the purposes of this Act and the rules made thereunder and shall be admissible in any proceedings thereunder without further proof or production of the original as evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein of which direct evidence is admissible.
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Amendment notes
- 1. The word “prospectus” omitted by Act 22 of 2019, s. 38 (w.e.f. 15-8-2019).
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