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(1) A copy of any entry in a book of a co-operative society regularly kept in the course of its business and in the prescribed manner shall, if certified in the prescribed manner, be accepted in any suit or legal proceeding as a prima facie evidence of the existence of such entry in such book and shall be admitted as evidence of the matters, transaction and accounts therein recorded in every case where, and to the same extent as, the original entry is admissible. (2) No officer or liquidator of a co-operative society or no other officer in whose custody the books and other records of a co-operative society have been kept after the co-operative society has been wound up shall, in any legal proceeding to which the co-operative society or the liquidator thereof is not a party, be compelled to produce any such books or other records the contents of which can be proved under sub- section (1) or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions or accounts therein recorded unless he is specifically so directed by order of the Court or the Registrar or an Arbitrator.