Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Notwithstandinganythingcontained in any other law for the time beingin Iorce; -- (a) a micro film of a document or the reproductionof the image or images embodied in such micro film (whether enlargedor not); or (b} a facsimile copy of a document; or (c) a statement contained in a document and included in a printed material produced by a computer, subjectto such conditions as may be prescribed;or (d) any Informationstored electronicallyin any device or media, includingany hard copies made of such information, shall be deemed to be a document for the purposes of this Act and the rules made thereunder and shall be admissible in any proceedingsthereunder, without further proof or productionof the original, as evidence of any contents of the originalor of any fact stated therein of which direct evidence would be admissible. (2) In any proceedings under this Act and or the rules made thereunder, where it is desired to gi?ea statement in evidence byvirtue of this section, a certificate, - (a) identifyingthe document containing the statement and describing the manner in which it was produced; (b} givingsuch particularsof any device involved in the productionof that document as may be appropriate for the purpose of showingthat the document was producedby a computer, shall be evidence of any matter stated in the certificate and for the purposes. of this sub-section it shall be sufficient for a matter to be stated to the best of the knowledgeand belief of the person stating it. Admissibility of micro films, facsimile copies of documents and computer printouts as documents and as evidence.