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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY _ [Paar Il—Sec. 1]
PARTIV
5
Amendment
of Indian
Evidence Act.
Amendment of
Insertion
45A.
52. In the Indian Evidence Act, 1872,—
1 of 1872,
@) in section 3 relating to interpretation clause, in the paragraph appearing at
section 3.
new
AMENDMENT OF THE INDIAN Evipence Acr, 1872
the end, for the words “digital signature” and “Digital Signature Certificate”, the words
“electronic signature” and “Electronic Signature Certificate” shall respectively be
substituted;
of
(6) after section 45, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—
section
:
Opinion of
“45A. When in a proceeding, the court has to form an opinion on any
Examiner of
ee
matter relating to any information transmitted or stored in any computer resource
or any other electronic or digital form, the opinion of the Examiner of Electronic
‘
Evidence referred to in section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, is
a relevant fact.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, an Examiner of
Electronic Evidence shall be an expert.”;
Amendment of
(©) in section 47A,—
section 47A.
nee
(i) for the words “digital signature”, the words “electronic‘actsignature”
shall be substituted;
(é for the words “Digital Signature Certificate”, the words “Electronic
Signature Certificate” shall be substituted;
(@) in section 67A, for the words “digital signature” wherever they occur, the
Amendment of
section 674.
words “electronic signature” shall be substituted;
Amendment of
(e) in section 85A, for the words “digital signature” at both the places where
section 85A.
they occur, the words “electronic signature” shall be substituted;
Amendment of
@ in section 85B, for the words “digital signature” wherever they occur, the
section 85B.
words “electronic signature” shall be substituted;
Amendment of
(g) in section 85C, for the words “Digital Signature Certificate”, the words
seotion 85C,
“Electronic Signature Certificate” shall be substituted;
Amendment of
section 90A.
(A) in section 90A, for the words “digital signature” at both the places where
they occur, the words “electronic signature” shall be substituted:
T.K. VISWANATHAN,
Secy. to the Govt. of India.
CORRIGENDUM
to
THE INDIAN BOILERS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2007
(No. 49 of 2007)
In the Indian Boilers (Amendment) Act, 2007 (No. 49 of 2007), as published in the
Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, dated the December 13, 2007 (Issue No.
56),—
At page 6, line 17, for “(6)”, read“(5A)”.
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