Section 8. Case in which officer of bank not compellable to produce books.

(1) No officer of a bank shall, in any legal proceeding to which the bank is not a party, be compelled to produce any banker’s book, the contents of which may be proved under this Act, or to appear as a witness to prove the matters, transactions and accounts recorded therein, unless by order of the Court made for special cause, to be recorded in writing. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the expression “special cause” means the following, namely:--- (a) where accuracy or genuineness of the entry or information in the bankers’ book is doubtful; or (b) where any event has occurred, which suggest that the regularity or ordinary nature of record keeping in the bank is interrupted; or (c) where the bank does not comply with any order made under section 9.