Transmission of registers to Chief Elections Officer

(1) Every registering officer shall immediately after he has signed and certified the said registers of electors transmit them to the Chief Elections Officer who shall upon the receipt of the registers countersign and date them and shall cause a copy of the same to be published. (2) The registers so dated, signed and published shall, subject to the determination of any pending appeal, form the Register of Electors for that town and shall remain in force until a new register is published as herein provided and it shall remain in the custody of the Chief Elections Officer. (3) A copy of any register so published, or any document purporting to be a register and purporting to be signed by the Chief Elections Officer as being correct shall on production be admitted as evidence of the existence and the contents of any such register in all courts.