{"id":195720,"date":"1999-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-15T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/introduction-of-the-information-technology-bill-1999-on-16-december-1999"},"modified":"2017-12-24T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T05:39:59","slug":"introduction-of-the-information-technology-bill-1999-on-16-december-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/introduction-of-the-information-technology-bill-1999-on-16-december-1999","title":{"rendered":"Introduction Of The Information Technology Bill, 1999. on 16 December, 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Lok Sabha Debates<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Introduction Of The Information Technology Bill, 1999. on 16 December, 1999<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>     Title: Introduction of the Information Technology Bill, 1999.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND MINISTER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI PRAMOD MAHAJAN): I beg to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred to as &#8220;electronic commerce&#8221;, which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of communication and storage of information, to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the Banker&#8221;s Book Evidence Act, 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.\n<\/p>\n<p>MR. CHAIRMAN: The question is:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That leave be granted to introduce a Bill to provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by means of electronic data interchange and other means of electronic communication, commonly referred to as &#8220;electronic commerce&#8221;, which involve the use of alternatives to paper-based methods of communication and storage of information, to facilitate electronic filing of documents with the Government agencies and further to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, the Banker&#8221;s Book Evidence Act, 1891 and the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;\n<\/p>\n<p>* Published in the Gazettee of India Extraordinary PartII- Section 2, dated 16.12.99 <\/p>\n<p>The motion was adopted.\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"marker_ref\" href=\"\/search\/?formInput=SHRI%20PRAMOD%20MAHAJAN\">SHRI PRAMOD MAHAJAN<\/a>: I introduce** the Bill.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\n<\/p>\n<p>** Introduced with he recommendation of the Presient.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>14.19 hrs.<br \/>\n\u00a0          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lok Sabha Debates Introduction Of The Information Technology Bill, 1999. on 16 December, 1999 Title: Introduction of the Information Technology Bill, 1999. \u00a0 THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND MINISTER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHRI PRAMOD MAHAJAN): I beg to move for leave to introduce a Bill to provide legal recognition for transactions carried out by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Introduction Of The Information Technology Bill, 1999. on 16 December, 1999 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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