The Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 1879, is hereby amended -

(a) by the substitution of the following section for section 5:

"5.

(1) A copy of an entry in a banker's book shall not be received in evidence under this Act unless it is further proved that -

(a) in the case where the copy sought to be received in evidence has been reproduced in a legible form directly by either or both mechanical and electronic means from a banker's book maintained in a non-legible form, it has been so reproduced;

(b) in the case where the copy sought to be received in evidence has been made (either directly or indirectly) from a copy to which paragraph (a) of this section would apply:

(i) the copy sought to be so received has been examined with a copy so reproduced and is a correct copy, and

(ii) the copy so reproduced is a copy to which the said paragraph (a) would apply if it were sought to have it received in evidence;

(c) in any other case, the copy has been examined with the original entry and is correct.

(2) Proof to which subsection (1) of this section relates shall be given -

(a) in respect of paragraph (a) or (b)(ii) of that subsection, by some person who has been in charge of the reproduction concerned,