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IT Act Section 7A
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The Information Technology Act, 2000

Section 7A Audit of documents, etc., maintained in electronic form

Chapter
III · Electronic Governance
Amendments
1
Section 7A inserted by Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, s. 8, dated 5th February, 2009, with effect from 27 October 2009Where in any lawDefined in section 2(y): law includes any Act of Parliament or of a State Legislature, Ordinances promulgated by the President or a Governor, as the case may be, Regulations made by the President under article 240, Bills enacted as President's Act under sub clause (a) of clause (1) of article 357 of the Constitution and includes rules, regu... for the time being in force, there is a provision for audit of documents, records or 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..., that provision shall also be applicable for audit of documents, records or 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... processed and maintained in the electronic formDefined in section 2(r): electronic form with reference to information, means any information generated, sent, received or stored in media, magnetic, optical, computer memory, micro film, computer generated micro fiche or similar device.

Amendments to this section

  1. 1 Section 7A inserted by Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, s. 8 (w.e.f. 27 October 2009).

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