290. Inspection, production and evidence of documents kept by Registrar

Any person may inspect the documents kept by the Registrar on payment of such fees as may be appointed by the Registrar, and person may 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 the Registrar may appoint.

No process for compelling the production of any document kept by the Registrar shall issue fiom any Court except with the leave of that

A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered at the office for the registration of companies, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove), shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal valid.ity with the original document.