business, or a copy or printout of or an extract from such data message certified to be
correct, is admissible in any civil, criminal, administrative or disciplinary proceedings under
any law, the rules of a self regulatory organisation or any other law or the common law, as
evidence of the facts contained in such record, copy, printout or extract against any person,
if –
(a) the affidavit has been made by the person who was in control of the information
system at the time when the data message has been created;
(b) the facts stated in the affidavit justify a finding on the reliability of the manner
in which the data message has been generated, stored or communicated;
(c) the facts stated in the affidavit justify a conclusion on the reliability of the
manner in which the integrity of the data message was maintained; and
(d) the facts stated in the affidavit justify a conclusion on the manner in which
the originator of the data message has been identified if the identity of the
originator is relevant to a matter in dispute.
(5) In legal proceedings all rules of evidence must be applied in such a manner that a
data message tendered as contemplated in this section is admissible if documentary evidence
that is similar in all material respects would have been admissible.
(6) Any document containing data evidence and purporting to be a printout of data
or information stored or created by a computer system is admissible in legal proceedings if
it has been authenticated by means of admissible evidence.
(7) Evidence referred to in subsection (6) is not admissible to the extent that the
evidence in the document in question is hearsay evidence, except where any rule of evidence
would have rendered similar evidence admissible if the evidence in question were contained
in a document.
(8) If in its opinion it is in the interest of the administration of justice, a court may
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