Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 12. In this Act unless the context other requires-"computer" means any device the functions of which includes the storing and processing of information;"duplicate" means a counterpart, produced by the same impression as the original, or from the same matrix or by means of photography (including enlargements, reductions, and miniatures), or by electronic, mechanical or chemical reproduction or re-recording, or by other equivalent techniques which accurately reproduces the original;"original" in relation to a recording or reproduction or statement produced by a computer, means the recording or reproduction or the statement itself or any transcript, translation, conversion, transformation or duplicate thereof intended to have the same effect by a person executing or issuing it; and "includes in relation to an audio or visual recording, the negative or any print therefrom, and in relation to a statement produced by a computer, the printout or other output readable by sight or audible by ear;''statement" includes any representation of fact whether made in words or otherwise |