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| | (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 for the certificate, certified copy or extract of such fees as may be prescribed: | | |
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| (2) No process for compelling the production of any document kept by the Registrar shall issue from any court except with the leave of that court, and any such process if issued shall bear thereon a statement that it is issued with the leave of the court. |
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| (3) A copy of, or extract from, any document kept and registered at any of the offices for the registration of companies in Sri Lanka, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document. |
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| (4) Any person untruthfully stating himself in writing for the purposes of the proviso to subsection (1) to be a member or creditor of a company shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a line not exceeding five hundred rupees. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts