Singapore legislation

Clause 6

of Evidence (Amendment) Bill

Clause 6

Amendment of section 65

Section 65 of the Evidence Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “mechanical processes” in paragraph (b) and substituting the words “electronic, electrochemical, chemical, magnetic, mechanical, optical, telematic or other technical processes”; and

(b)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (b) of the Illustrations, the following paragraph:“(ba)A copy of a document in the form of a print-out, or image on a monitor screen, retrieved from a magnetic or optical storage device, such as a tape, hard disk, laser disc or CD‑ROM, is secondary evidence of the contents of the document if it is shown that the copy retrieved from the storage device satisfies the conditions providing for the admissibility of such output.”.

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