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Information Technology Act, 2000 Section 8

Title: Publication of Rule, Regulation, Etc., in Electronic Gazette

State: Central

Year: 2000

Where any law provides that any rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matter shall be published in the Official Gazette, then, such requirement shall be deemed to have been satisfied if such rule, regulation, order, bye-law, notification or any other matter is published in the Official Gazette or Electronic Gazette: Provided that where any rule, regulation, order, by-law, notification or any other matter is published in the Official Gazelle or Electronic Gazette, the date of publication shall be deemed to be the date of the Gazette which was first published in any form.

Information Technology Act, 2000 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....record is retained intact or has been altered since such electronic record was so affixed with the digital signature. (2) Any reference in this Act to any enactment or any provision thereof shall, in relation to an area in which such enactment or such provision is not in force, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law or the relevant provision of the corresponding law, if any, in force in that area. SECTION 03: AUTHENTICATION OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS (1) Subject to the provisions of this section any subscriber may authenticate an electronic record by affixing his digital signature. (2) The authentication of the electronic record shall be effected by the use of asymmetric crypto system and hash function which envelop and transform the initial electronic record into another electronic record. Explanation."For the purposes of this sub-section, "hash function" means an algorithm mapping or translation of one sequence of bits into another, generally smaller, set known as "hash result" such that an electronic record yields the same hash result every time the algorithm is executed with the same electronic record as its input making it computationally infeasible" (a).....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Chapter III

Title: Electronic Governance

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....appropriate Government may authorise the service providers to collect, retain and appropriate service charges under this section notwithstanding the fact that there is no express provision under the Act, rule, regulation or notification under which the service is provided to collect, retain and appropriate e-service charges by the service providers. (4) The appropriate Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify the scale of service charges which may be charged and collected by the service providers under this section: Provided that the appropriate Government may specify different scale of service charges for different types of services.'.] _________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. Section 7 - Retention of electronic records (1) Where any law provides that documents, records or information shall be retained for any specific period, then, that requirement shall be deemed to have been satisfied if such documents, records or information are retained in the electronic form, if-- (a) the information contained therein remains accessible so as to be usable for a subsequent reference; (b) the electronic record.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Amending Act 1

Title: Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....TECHNOLOGY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2008 [Act No. 10 of 2009] [5th February 2009] PREAMBLE An Act further to amend the Information Technology Act, 2000. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- PART I Preliminary 1. Short title and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint: Provided that 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 coming into force of that provision. PART II Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000 2. Substitution of words "digital signature" by words "electronic signature". In the Information Technology Act, 2000 (hereinafter in this Part referred to as the 21 of 2000. principal Act), for the words "digital signature" occurring in the Chapter, section, subsection and clause referred to in the Table below, the words "electronic signature" shall be substituted. .....

Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Part 2 50

Title: Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000

State: Central

Year: 2008

.....that in prescribing such security procedures and practices, the Central Government shall have regard to the commercial circumstances, nature of transactions and such other related factors as it may consider appropriate.'. Section 12 - Amendment of section 17 In section 17 of the principal Act,-- (a) in sub-section (1), for the words "and Assistant Controllers", the words ", Assistant Controllers, other officers and employees" shall be substituted; and (b) in sub-section (4), for the words "and Assistant Controllers", the words ", Assistant Controllers, other officers and employees" shall be substituted.". Section 13 - Omission of section 20 Section 20 of the principal Act shall be omitted. Section 14 - Amendment of section 29 In section 29 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words "any contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations made thereunder", the words "any contravention of the provisions of this Chapter" shall be substituted. Section 15 - Amendment of section 30 In section 30 of the principal Act,-- (i) in clause (c), after the word "assured", the word "and" shall be omitted; (ii) after clause (c), the following.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....defined in section 13 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881);" (w.e.f. 6-2-2003). 3. Substituted by Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008 Act No. 10 of 2009. Prior to substitution text read as under :- "(4) Nothing in this Act shall apply to-- 2 [(a) a negotiable instrument (other than a cheque) as defined in section 13 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (26 of 1881);]. (b) a power-of-attorney as defined in section 1A of the Powers-of-Attorney Act, 1882 (7 of 1882); (c) a trust as defined in section 3 of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 (2 of 1882); (d) a will as defined in clause (h) of section (2) of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), including any other testamentary disposition by whatever name called; (e) any contract for the sale or conveyance of immovable property or any interest in such property; (f) any such class of documents or transactions as may be notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette." Section 2 - Definitions (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (a) "access", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means gaining entry into, instructing.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Chapter XIII

Title: Miscellaneous

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....no express provision is made by this Act for the punishment of such abetment, be punished with the punishment provided for the offence under this Act. Explanation.-An act or offence is said to be committed in consequence of abetment, when it is committed in consequence of the instigation, or in pursuance of the conspiracy, or with the aid which constitutes the abetment.] _________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. Section 84C - Punishment for attempt to commit offences 1[84C. Punishment for attempt to commit offences.- Whoever attempts to commit an offence punishable by this Act or causes such an offence to be committed, and in such an attempt does any act towards the commission of the offence, shall, where no express provision is made for the punishment of such attempt, be punished with imprisonment of any description provided for the offence, for a term which may extend to one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for that offence, or with such fine as is provided for the offence, or with both.] _________________ 1. Inserted vide Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. Section 85 - Offences by companies .....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruction".] (o) "data" means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions which are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner, and is intended to be processed, is being processed or has been processed in a computer system or computer network, and may be in any form (including computer printouts magnetic or optical storage media, punched cards, punched tapes) or stored internally in the memory of the computer; (p) "digital signature" means authentication of any electronic record by a subscriber by means of an electronic method or procedure in accordance with the provisions of section 3; (q) "Digital Signature Certificate" means a Digital Signature Certificate issued under sub-section (4) of section 35; (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; (s) "Electronic Gazette" means the Official Gazette published in the electronic form; (t) "electronic record" means data, record or.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Section 87

Title: Power of Central Government to Make Rules

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....section 10; 4[(e) the manner of storing and affixing electronic signature creation data under section 15; (ea) the security procedures and practices under section 16;"] (f) the qualifications, experience and terms and conditions of service of Controller, Deputy Controllers and 5[Assistant Controllers, other officers and employees] under section 17; 6[***] (h) the requirements which an applicant must fulfil under sub-section (2) of section 21; (i) the period of validity of licence granted under clause (a) of subsection (3) of section 21; (j) the form in which an application for licence may be made under subsection (1) of section 22; (k) the amount of fees payable under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 22; (l) such other documents which shall accompany an application for licence under clause (d) of sub-section (2) of section 22; (m) the form and the fee for renewal of a licence and the fee payable thereof under section 23; 3[(ma) the form of application and fee for issue of Electronic Signature Certificate under section 35] (n) the form in which application for issue of a 1[Electronic] Signature Certificate may be made under sub-section (1) of.....

Information Technology Act, 2000 Complete Act

Title: Information Technology Act, 2000

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....records Section7A - Audit of documents etc, maintained in electronic form Section8 - Publication of rule, regulation, etc., in Electronic Gazette Section9 - Sections 6, 7 and 8 not to confer right to insist document should be accepted in electronic form Section10 - Power to make rules by Central Government in respect of electronic signature Section10A - Validity of contracts formed through electronic means Chapter IV Section11 - Attribution of electronic records Section12 - Acknowledgement of receipt Section13 - Time and place of despatch and receipt of electronic record Chapter V Section14 - Secure electronic record Section15 - Secure electronic signature Section16 - Security procedure and Pratices Chapter VI Section17 - Appointment of Controller and other officers Section18 - Functions of Controller Section19 - Recognition of foreign Certifying Authorities Section20 - Controller to act as repository (omitted) Section21 - Licence to issue Digital Signature Certificates Section22 - Application for licence Section23 - Renewal of licence Section24 - Procedure for grant or rejection of licence Section25 - Suspension of licence Section26 - Notice of suspension or.....