Electronic Comm unications and Transactions [ N o . 21 o f 2 0 0 9 (a) an agreement for the alienation of immovable property under the Lands Act; (b) the execution, retention and presentation of a will or codicil under the Wills and Administration of Testate Estates Act; 239 Cap. 184 Cap. 60 (c) the execution of a bill of exchange; or (d) any guarantee. (6) This Act d o e s not limit the operation of any law that expressly authorises, prohibits or regulates the use of data messages, including any requirement by, or under, any law for information to be posted or displayed in a specified manner, or for any information or document to be transmitted by a specified method. PART II LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA MESSAGES 4. (1) Information shall not be without legal force and effect merely on the grounds that it is wholly or partly in the form of a data message. (2) Information shall not be without legal force and effect merely on the grounds that it is not contained in the data message purporting to give rise to such legal force and effect, but is merely referred to in the data message. (3) Information incorporated into an agreement and that is not in the public domain shall be treated as having been incorporated into a data message if such information is (a) referred to in a w a y in which a reasonable person would have noticed the reference thereto and incorporation thereof; and (b) accessible in a form in which it m a y be read, stored and retrieved by the other party, whether electronically or as a computer printout as long as such information is reasonably capable of being reduced to electronic form by the party incorporating it. 5. (1) A requirement in law that a document or information shall be in writing shall be met if the document or information i s — (a) in the form of a data message; and (b) accessible in a manner usable for subsequent reference. Legal requirements for data messages