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Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 · Part G

Section 861Preservation of documents and inspection

(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 by the 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.
Cite as: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, section 861

What this section means

From the Part overview: CAMA 2020 Part G: general provisions (sections 851 to 870)

  • The Commission preserves all documents delivered to it, and anyone can inspect them or ask for certified copies on payment of the prescribed fee (section 861).

Source: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (Act No. 3 of 2020), Official Gazette No. 124, Lagos, 10 August 2020. General information, not legal advice.