law: Government Securities Act 2006
  25.
  
  Micro films, facsimile copies of documents, magnetic tapes and computer print
  
  outs as documents of evidence. -
  1.   Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in any other law for the time being in force,-
  a.   a micro film of a
  
  document or the reproduction of the image or images embodied in such micro film
  
  (whether enlarged or not); or
  b.   a facsimile copy of a
  
  document; or
  c.   a statement contained
  
  in a document and included in a printed material produced by a computer,
  
  magnetic tape or any other form of mechanical or electronic data retrieval
  
  mechanism (hereinafter referred to as computer print out), if the conditions
  
  mentioned in sub-section (2) and the other provisions contained in this section
  
  are satisfied in relation to the statement and the computer in question, shall
  
  be deemed to be also a document for the purposes of this Act and the
  
  regulations made thereunder and shall be admissible in any proceedings
  
  thereunder, without further proof or production of the original, as evidence of
  
  any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein of which direct
  
  evidence would be admissible.
  1.  
  2.   The conditions
  
  referred to in sub-section (1) in respect of a computer print out shall be the
  
  following, namely:-
  a.   the computer print
  
  out containing the statement was produced by the computer during the period
  
  over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for
  
  the purposes of any activities regularly carried on over that period by the
  
  person having lawful control over the use of the computer;
  b.   during the said
  
  period, there was regularly supplied to the computer in the ordinary course of
  
  the said activities, information of the kind contained in the statement or of
  
  the kind from which the information so contained is derived;
  c.   throughout the
  
  material part of the said period, the computer was operating properly or, if
  
  not, then any respect in which it was not operating properly or was out of
  
  operation during that part of that period was not such as to affect the
  
  production of the document or the accuracy of the contents; and
  d.   the information
  
  contained in the statement reproduced or is derived from information supplied
  
  to the computer in the ordinary course of the said activities.
  1.  
  2.  
  3.   Where over any
  
  period, the function of storing or processing information for the purposes of
  
  any activities regularly carried on over that period as mentioned in clause (a)
  
  of sub-section (2) was regularly performed by computers, whether-
  a.   by a combination of
  
  computers operating over that period; or
  b.   by different
  
  computers operating in succession over that period; or
  c.   by different
  
  combinations of computers operating in succession over that period; or
  d.   in any other manner
  
  involving the successive operation over that period, in whatever order, of one
  
  or more computers and one or more combinations of computers, all the computers
  
  used for that purpose during that period shall be treated for the purposes of
  
  this section as constituting a single computer; and references in this section
  
  to a computer shall be construed accordingly.
  4.   In any proceeding
  
  under this Act and the regulations made thereunder where it is desired to give
  
  a statement in evidence by virtue of this section, a certificate doing any of
  
  the following things, that is to say,-
  a.   identifying the
  
  document containing the statement and describing the manner in which it was
  
  produced;
  b.   giving such
  
  particulars of any device involved in the production of that document as may be
  
  appropriate for the purpose of showing that the document was produced by a
  
  computer;
  c.   dealing with any of
  
  the matters to which the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) relate, and
  
  purporting to be signed by a person occupying a responsible official position
  
  in the Bank in relation to the operation of the relevant device or the
  
  management of the relevant activities (whichever is appropriate), shall be
  
  evidence of any matter stated in the certificate; and for the purposes of this
  
  sub-section it shall be sufficient for a matter to be stated to the best of the
  
  knowledge and belief of the person stating it.
  5.   For the purposes of
  
  this section,-
  a.   information shall be
  
  taken to be supplied to a computer if it is supplied thereto in any appropriate
  
  form and whether it is so supplied directly or (with or without human
  
  intervention) by means of any appropriate equipment;
  b.   whether in the course
  
  of activities carried on by any official, information is supplied with a view
  
  to its being stored or processed for the purposes of those activities by a
  
  computer operated otherwise than in the course of those activities, that
  
  information, if duly supplied to that computer, shall be taken to be supplied
  
  to it in the course of those activities;
  c.   a document shall be
  
  taken to have been produced by a computer whether it was produced by it
  
  directly or (with or without human intervention) by means of any appropriate
  
  equipment.
  Explanation.-
  
  For the purposes of this section,-
  a.   "computer"
  
  means any electronic, magnetic, optical or other high-speed data processing
  
  service device or system which performs logical, arithmetical and memory
  
  functions by manipulation of electronic, magnetic or optical impulses and
  
  includes all input, output, processing, storage, computer software or
  
  communication facilities which are connected or related to the computer in a computer
  
  system or computer network;
  b.   "computer print
  
  out" shall include ledgers, day-books, account books and other records,
  
  maintained in the ordinary course of business of the Bank or of the agent,
  
  printed on paper from the information stored in the computer or derived from
  
  such information; and
  c.   any reference to
  
  information being derived from other information shall be a reference to its
  
  being derived therefrom by calculation, comparison or any other process.