Official copies of records or documents maintained on microfilm, microfiche or other photo-reproductive material of archival quality by the Employees' Retirement System shall be admissible as primary evidence in any legal, judicial, or administrative proceeding or action for the purpose of proving the truth of the contents of the photo-reproduced copies of such records or documents, regardless of any rule of evidence or law relating to the proof of such matters, provided the Secretary-Treasurer of the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama certifies on such copies offered into evidence that the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama is not in possession of the original and that the copy is a true and correct representation of the original.