cific data message and whether the data message has been altered since the
secure electronic signature has been applied;
(d) prescribing the role and the duties of accredited service providers;
(e) prescribing any presumptions that will apply when a prescribed security procedure has been followed;
(f) prescribing anything that is necessary or expedient to prescribe with relation
to a secure electronic signature.
(4) If any presumptions have been prescribed in terms of subsection (3)(e), those
presumptions will be prima facie proof of the matter presumed in criminal proceedings and
will be presumed unless the contrary is proved in civil proceedings.
Original information
21. (1) Unless a contrary intention appears, where a law requires information to be
presented or retained in its original form, that requirement is met by a data message if –
(a) there exists a reliable assurance that the information has remained complete
and unaltered from the time when it was first generated in its final form, as a
data message or otherwise; and
(b) where it is required that information must be presented, that information is
capable of being displayed in the form of a data message to the person to
whom it must be presented.
(2) Subsection (1) applies whether the requirement therein is in the form of an obligation or whether the law simply provides consequences for the information not being presented
or retained in its original form.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a) –
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