“information system” means a system of (data message) processing by using an electronic device for generating, sending, receiving, storing or processing a data message; “electronic data interchange” means the dispatch or receipt of information by an electronic from computer to computer using an agreed standard; “originator” means a person by whom the data message purports to have been sent or generated prior to storage before being sent pursuant to the method designated by such person, whether such data message is sent by such person, or generated in the name of or on behalf of such person, but does not include an intermediary with respect to that data message; “addressee” means a person who is intended by the originator to receive the data message and who receives such data message, but does not include an intermediary with respect to that data message; “intermediary” means a person who, on behalf of another person, sends, receives or stores a particular data message, including the providing of other services with respect to that data message; “certificate” means a data message or other record confirming the link between a signatory and signature creation data; “signatory” means a person that holds signature creation data and creates the electronic signature either on his own behalf or on behalf of other persons; “relying party” means a person that may act on the basis of a certificate or an electronic signature; “State agency” means a Ministry, Bureau, Department, other Government agency by a different name and having the status of a Department, a provincial administration, a local administration and a State enterprise established by an Act or a Royal Decree and shall also include a juristic person, a group of persons or a person having the power and duties to perform the State affairs in any matter whatsoever; “Commission” means the Electronic Transaction Commission; “Minister” means the Minister in charge of this Act. Section 5 The provisions of Section 13 to Section 24 and the provisions of Section 26 to Section 31 may be agreed otherwise. Section 6 The Prime Minister shall be in charge of this Act. CHAPTER 1 ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS Section 7 Information shall not be denied legal effect and enforceability solely on the ground that it is in the form of a data message. Section 8 Subject to the provision of Section 9, in the case where the law requires any transaction to be made in writing, to be evidenced in writing or supported by a document which must be produced, if the information is generated in the form of a data message which is accessible and usable for subsequent reference without its meaning being altered, it shall be deemed that such information is made in writing, is evidenced in writing or is supported by a document. www.ThaiLaws.com 2