section 4 of the Communications Act, 2009 (Act No. 8 of 2009); “automated message system” means a pre-programmed system or other electronic or other automated means, including a computer program, used to initiate an action, respond to data messages or generate other performances in whole or in part, without review or intervention by a human being each time an action is initiated or a response is generated by the system; “communications” means electronic communications; “consumer” means any natural person who enters or intends entering into an electronic transaction with a supplier as the end user of the goods or services offered by that supplier; “computer evidence” means data evidence or information evidence; “Council” means the Electronic Information Systems Management Advisory Council established by section 4; “computer system” means any device or a group of interconnected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, performs automatic processing of data; “data evidence” means evidence of any matter relevant in legal proceedings if that matter is represented in a computer system directly and can be made readily understandable to a human being without requiring any special skills or knowledge on the part of any person and includes a display, print out or other output of that data; “data message” means data generated, displayed, sent, received or stored by electronic or similar means and which appears to a user as a logical unit, including, but not limited to, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail, a web page, mobile communications, such as SMS messages, audio and video recordings, telegram, telex or telecopy; “digital certificate” means data or a device which enables a person to verify that a data message has been sent or created by a specific person and which data or device has been issued by a third party or by an information system on behalf of that third party; 5