2. Amendment of section 5 of Chapter 101

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 5 of the Civil Procedure Code (Chapter 101)

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amended by the insertion, immediately after the definition of the expression “decree”, of the following new definitions:-

“ “document” includes a document in electronic form;

“document in electronic form” includes -

(a)

any information consisting of any contemporaneous recording or reproduction thereof or any information contained in a statement produced by a computer within the meaning of the Evidence (Special Provisions)

Act, No. 14 of 1995;

(b)

any information contained in a data message, electronic document, electronic record, electronic communication or other information or transaction in electronic form within the meaning of the Electronic

Transactions Act, No. 19 of 2006;

(c)

such other document or information or record or communication or transaction in electronic form that may be specified by any other written law;

(d)

such other document or information or record or communication that is stored on devices, servers and back-up systems in any medium that encompasses computer technology or any such document or information or record or communication that has been deleted; or

(e)

any metadata and other embedded data which is not typically visible on a computer screen or print out;”.

Read on from s 3