Cos 397 — Admissibility of certain documents as evidence

Companies Act, 2013

Statutory text

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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