No.13
Electronic Transactions
2015
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Publication of
document
16. Where a written law provides that a document be
published in the Gazette, such requirement shall be deemed
to have been met if such document is published in an
electronic Gazette.
Document in
electronic
form not
mandatory
17. This Act shall not confer a right upon any
person to insist that any public institution shall deal with
any document in electronic form.
PART IV
ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENTIAL WEIGHT OF DATA MESSAGES
Admissibility
of data
message
18.-(1) In any legal proceedings, nothing in the rules
of evidence shall apply so as to deny the admissibility of
data message on ground that it is a data message.
(2) In determining admissibility and evidential
weight of a data message, the following shall be considered(a) the reliability of the manner in which the data
message was generated, stored or communicated;
(b) the reliability of the manner in which the
integrity of the data message was maintained;
(c) the manner in which its originator was identified;
and
(d) any other factor that may be relevant in assessing
the weight of evidence.
(3) The authenticity of an electronic records system
in which an electronic record is recorded or stored shall, in
the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed where(a) there is evidence that supports a finding that at
all material times the computer system or other
similar device was operating properly or, if it
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