law: Companies Act, 2013 
  399.
  
    Inspection,
  
  production and evidence of documents kept by Registrar. 
  1.      Save as otherwise
  
  provided elsewhere in this Act, any person may—
  a.     
  
    inspect
  
  by electronic means any documents kept by the Registrar in accordance with the
  
  rules made, being documents filed or registered by him in pursuance of this
  
  Act, or making a record of any fact required or authorised to be recorded or
  
  registered in pursuance of this Act, on payment for each inspection of such
  
  fees as may be prescribed;
  b.    
  
    require
  
  a certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or extract of any
  
  other document or any part of any other document to be certified by the
  
  Registrar, on payment in advance of such fees as may be prescribed:
  Provided
  
  that the rights conferred by this sub-section shall be exercisable—
                       
  
   i.        
  
    in
  
  relation to documents delivered to the Registrar with a prospectus in pursuance
  
  of section 26, only during the fourteen days beginning with the date of
  
  publication of the prospectus; and at other times, only with the permission of
  
  the Central Government; and
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    in
  
  relation to documents so delivered in pursuance of clause (b ) of
  
  subsection (1 ) of section 388, only during the fourteen days beginning
  
  with the date of the prospectus; and at other times, only with the permission
  
  of the Central Government.
  1.     
  2.      No process for
  
  compelling the production of any document kept by the Registrar shall issue
  
  from any court or the Tribunal except with the leave of that court or the
  
  Tribunal and any such process, if issued, shall bear thereon a statement that
  
  it is issued with the leave of the court or the Tribunal.
  3.      A copy of, or extract
  
  from, any document kept and registered at any of the offices for the
  
  registration of companies under this Act, certified to be a true copy by the
  
  Registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove), shall,
  
  in all legal proceedings, be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with
  
  the original document.