law: State Bank of India Act, 1955
  13. Register of share-holders
  
  (1) The State Bank shall keep at its Central Office, a register,
  
  in one or more books of the shareholders, and shall enter therein the following
  
  particulars so far as they may be available :-
  (i) the names, addresses and occupations, if
  
  any, of the shareholders and a statement of the shares held by each
  
  shareholder, distinguishing each share by its denoting number;
  (ii) the date on which each person is so
  
  entered as a shareholder;
  (iii) the date on which any person ceases to
  
  be a shareholder; and
  (iv) such other particulars as may be
  
  prescribed.
   13  [Provided that nothing on this
  
  sub-section shall apply to the shares held with a depository].
  (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), it
  
  shall be lawful for the State Bank to keep the registrar of shareholders in
  
  computer floppies or diskettes subject to such safeguards as may be prescribed.
  
  
  (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Indian Evidence
  
  Act, 1872, a copy of, or extract from, the registrar of shareholders certified
  
  to be a true copy under the hand of an officer of the State Bank authorized in
  
  this behalf shall, in all legal proceedings, be admissible in evidence.".