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The Electronic Transactions Act, 2007
The Electronic Transactions Act, 2007
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious the Merciful
The Electronic Transactions Act, 2007 [1]
Be it hereby passed, by the National Assembly, and signed, by the President of the Republic, in
accordance with the provisions of the Interim National Constitution of the Republic of the Sudan,
2005, the following Act:
Chapter I
Preliminary Provisions
Title and commencement
This Act may be cited as the, “Electronic Transactions Act, 2007”, and shall come into force, as of
the date of signature .
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Electronic
transactions”
means the relations, financial disposals, personal status and all legal
matters other than criminal matters, including individual disposals or
contracts as may be concluded or executed totally or partially through
electronic data message;
“Data message”
means the information produced, sent, received or saved by electronic,
or visual means, or other technological means, including exchange of
electronic data, electronic mail, telegraph, telex or telegraphic copying ;
“Information”
means the data, texts , photographs, images, voices, signs , data base,
and computer programmes, and the like;
“Electronic record”
means the entry , contract or data message, initiated, sent, received or
saved by electronic means;
“Electronic
instrument”
means the document initiated, saved, retrieved, copied, sent , served or
received by an electronic means on a tangible medium, or any other
electronic medium, and retrievable in such form, as can be understood;
“Digital signature”
means the signature initiated, sent and saved by an electronic means.
It may take the form of letters, digits, signs or signals having a distinct
character, and allows identification and distinguishing the personality of
the signatory from others;
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