Evidence Act · Chapter II · Of the relevancy of facts
Evidence Act section 22A, “When oral admission as to contents of electronic records are relevant”, was not carried into the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, which replaced the Evidence Act on 1 July 2024.
No separate section in the BSA. The IEA rule that oral admissions about the contents of electronic records are irrelevant unless the record’s genuineness is in question is not repeated; BSA section 20 deals with oral admissions about the contents of documents, which include electronic records.
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Oral admissions as to the contents of electronic records are not relevant, unless the genuineness of the electronic record produced is in question.
The texts are India Code’s. The amendment markers and footnotes of the official print are left out, so the old section reads as it stood when it was repealed. The PDFs linked below carry the full history.
The BSA repealed the Indian Evidence Act from 1 July 2024 (section 170(1)). Any application, trial, inquiry, investigation, proceeding or appeal pending immediately before that date is dealt with under the Evidence Act as it then stood, as if the BSA had not come into force (section 170(2)).
