Section 1 Short title, extent, commencement and application
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(1) This Act may be called the InformationDefined in section 2(v): information includes 6[data, message, text,] images, sound, voice, codes, computer programmes, software and data bases or micro film or computer generated micro fiche; 7[(w) intermediary, with respect to any particular electronic records, means any person who on behalf of another person receives, stores or transmits... Technology Act, 2000.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of India and, save as otherwise provided in this Act, it applies also to any offence or contravention thereunder committed outside India by any person.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the commencement of that provision.
Substituted by Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, s. 3, dated 5th February, 2009, with effect from 27 October 2009. Earlier read: "sub-section (4)"(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to documents or transactions specified in the First Schedule:
Substituted by Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, s. 3, dated 5th February, 2009, with effect from 27 October 2009. Earlier read: "sub-section (4)"Provided that the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the First Schedule by way of addition or deletion of entries thereto.
Substituted by Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, s. 3, dated 5th February, 2009, with effect from 27 October 2009. Earlier read: "sub-section (4)"(5) Every notification issued under sub-section (4) shall be laid before each House of Parliament.
1. 17th October, 2000, vide notification No. G.S.R. 788 (E), dated 17th October, 2000, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).