(aa) "valid accreditation certificate" means an accreditation certificate which has not been
suspended or revoked.
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CHAPTER II
RECOGNITION AND PRESUMPTION
3. Legal recognition of electronic forms. No document, record, information, communication or
transaction shall be denied legal recognition, admissibility, effect, validity, proof or enforceability on the ground
that it is in electronic form and has not been attested any witness.
4. Requirement for writing. The requirement under any law for any document, record, information,
communication or transaction to be in written form shall be deemed satisfied where the document record,
information communication or transaction is in electronic form, if the same is accessible so as to be usable for
subsequent reference.
5. Requirement for original form.(1) The requirement under any law for any document, record,
information, communication or transaction to be presented or retained in its original form shall be deemed
satisfied by presenting or retaining the same if:__
(a) there exists a reliable assurance as to the integrity thereof from the time when it was first generated
in its final form ; and
(b) it is required that the presentation, thereof is capable of being displayed in a legible form.
(2) For the purposes of clause (a) of subsection (1);
(a) the criterion for assessing the integrity of the document, record, information, communication or
transaction is whether the same has remained complete and unaltered, apart from the addition of
any endorsement or any change which arises in the normal course of communication, storagg or
display; and
(b) the standard for reliability of the assurance shall be assessed having regard to the purpose for
which the document, record, information, communication or transaction was generated and all
other relevant circumstances.
6. Requirement for retention.The requirement under any law that certain document, record, information,
communication or transaction be retained shall be deemed satisfied by retaining it in electronic form if:__
(a) the contents of the document, record, information, communication or transaction remain accessible
so as to be usable for subsequent reference;
(b) the contents and form of the document, record, information, communication or transaction are as
originally generated, sent or received, or can be demonstrated to represent accurately the contents
and form in which it was originally generated, sent or received; and
(c) such document, record, information, communication or transaction, if any, as enables the
identification of the origin and destination of document, record, information, communication or
transaction and the date and time when it was generated, sent or received, is retained.
7. Legal recognition of electronic signatures. The requirement under any law for affixation of signatures
shall be deemed satisfied where electronic signatures or advanced electronic signature are applied.
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