law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  81.
  
     Registrar
  
  and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc.
  The
  
  Registrar or any other officer of the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits
  
  Layout-Design Registry shall not, in any legal proceedings to which he is not a
  
  party, be compellable to produce the register or any other document in his
  
  custody, the contents of which can be proved by the production of a certified
  
  copy issued under this Act or to appear as a witness to prove the matters
  
  therein recorded unless by order of the court made for special cause.