B Automation,- (1) The Government shall endeavour to introduce

and establish an automated data processing system for complementing the purposes of this Act and for matters incidental and allied thereto. (2) In order to make the said system effective, the Government may from time to time make Regulations for regulating the interaction. Between the dealers and the authorities appointed or constituted under this Act. (3) The provisions contained in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (Central Act 21 of 2000), the rules made thereunder and directions given under that Act, including the provisions relating to digital signatures, electronic governance, attribution, acknowledgement and dispatch of electronic records, secure electronic records and secure digital signature and digital signature certificates, shall, in so far as they may apply to the procedures under this Act, apply. (4) Except as may be provided otherwise in this Act, the software for automated data processing system, the operating system, the operating instructions and the criteria for any selection shall be treated as confidential. 13. Amendment of Schedule,- In the principle Act, (1) the existing Schedule shall be numbered as Schedule-1 (2) then after added the following new Schedule, namely:-