Companies Act, 1956
Sec 610A - Admissibility of micro films, facsimile copies
of documents, computer printouts and documents on computer media as documents
and as evidence.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any
other law for the time being in force,
(a) a micro film of a document or the
reproduction of the image or images embodied in such micro film (whether
enlarged or 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 (hereinafter referred to
as a "computer printout"), if the conditions mentioned in sub-section
(2) are satisfied, shall be deemed to be also a document for the purposes of
this Act and the rules made thereunder and shall be admissible in any
proceedings thereunder, without further proof or production of the original, as
evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein of which
direct evidence should be admissible.
(2) The conditions referred to in sub-section
(1) in respect of a computer printout shall be the following, namely:
(a) the information contained in the statement
reproduces or is derived from returns and document filed by the company on
paper or on computer network, floppy, diskette, magnetic cartridge tape, CD-ROM
or any other computer readable media;
(b) while receiving returns or documents on
computer media, necessary checks by scanning the documents filed on computer
media will be carried out and media will be duly authenticated by the Registrar
; and
(c) the Registrar shall also take due care to
preserve the computer media by duplicating, transferring, mastering or storage
without loss of data.