law: Co-Operative Societies Act 2008 
  237.
  
  Proof of entries in books and other documents
  1.      A copy of any entry
  
  in a book or other document that is required to be kept by this Act shall, if
  
  certified by the Registrar be received in any legal proceedings, civil or
  
  criminal, as prima facie evidence of the existence of such entry and
  
  shall be admitted as evidence of the matters, transactions and accounts therein
  
  recorded in every case where, and to the same extent as, the original entry
  
  itself is admissible.
  2.      No officer of any
  
  such society shall, in any legal proceedings to which the society is not a
  
  party, be compelled to produce any of the society’s books, the contents of
  
  which can be proved under subsection (1), or to appear as a witness to prove
  
  any matters, transactions or accounts therein recorded, unless the Court for
  
  special reasons so directs.