Section 861 CAMA 2020
Section 861 Companies and Allied Matters Act is about Preservation of documents and inspection. It is under Chapter 2 (Miscellaneous and supplemental) of the Act.
(1) The Commission shall preserve all documents delivered to it under this Act.
(2) Any person may, on application to the Commission, be permitted to inspect the documents kept under subsection(1) on payment of a prescribed fee and may require a copy or extract of any such document to be certified bythe Commission on payment of a prescribed fee.
(3) Where a copy or extract from any document registered under this Act, is certified by the Commission to be a true copy or extract, it shall in all proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document, and it shall be unnecessary to prove the official position of the person certifying the copy or extract.
(4) No process for compelling the production of any document kept by the Commission shall issue from any court, except with the leave of that court, and such process, if issued, shall bear a statement that it is issued with the leave of the Court.
