Act 8
Electronic Transactions Act
2011
purpose for the benefit of the public or any section of the
public to administer funds or property belonging to or granted
by the Government or money raised by public subscription,
rates, taxes, cess or charges in pursuance of any written law
and any council, board, committee or society established by an
Act of Parliament for the benefit, regulation and control of any
profession;
“service provider” means—
(i) any public or private entity that provides to the users of
its service the ability to communicate by means of a
computer system, and
(ii) any other entity that processes or stores computer data
on behalf of such communication service or users of
such service;
“third party”, in relation to a service provider, means a
subscriber to a service provided by the service provider or
any other user of the service provider’s services or a user of
information systems.
(2) This Act shall be construed consistently with what is
commercially reasonable under the circumstances as to achieve
business sense.
3.
Application
(1) This Act does not apply to the list of documents specified in
Schedule 2.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall limit the operation of a law which
expressly authorises, prohibits or regulates the use of electronic
documents.
4.
Object of the Act
(1) The object of this Act is to provide a legal and regulatory
framework to—
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