SECURE ELECTRONIC RECORDS & DIGITAL SIGNATURES
16. Secure electronic record.– Where any security procedure has been applied to an electronic record at a specific point of time, then such record shall be deemed to a secure electronic record from such point of time to the time of verification.
17. Secure digital signature.– (1) If, by application of a security procedure agreed to by the parties concerned, it can be verified that a digital signature, at the time it was affixed, was–
(a) unique to the person affixing it;
(b) capable of identifying the person affixing it; and
(c) created in manner or using a means under the sole control of the person affixing;
then such digital signature shall be deemed to be a secure digital signature as per sub-section (2).
(2) Despite the fact of sub-section (1), the digital signature would be invalidated if the
electronic record was altered relating to this very digital signature.