Amendment of Section

In Section 57 of the principal Act, in sub-section (5), for full stop, the colon shall be substituted and thereafter the following proviso shall be added, namely :—

" Provided that when a registered document is electronically signed and stored in a database authorized by the Government under the concerning rules, then subject to the provision of section 67A of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (No. 1 of 1872), copies thereof may be downloaded/issued from the said authorized database and the same shall also be admissible for the purpose of proving the contents of the original document.".