Information Technology Act Section 9 — Sections 6, 7 and 8 not to confer right to insist document should be accepted in electronic form

CHAPTER III ELECTRONIC GOVERNANCE

Cyber Law

Summary

Nothing in sections 6, 7, and 8 of this Act gives any person the right to force a government ministry, department, authority, or body (whether set up by law or controlled or funded by the central or state government) to accept, issue, create, keep, or preserve any document as an electronic record, or to carry out any monetary transaction in electronic form. In other words, even though those earlier sections deal with electronic records and transactions, they do not create a legal entitlement for you to demand that the government deal with you electronically.

Official Text

Nothing contained in sections 6, 7 and 8 shall confer a right upon any person to insist that any Ministry or Department of the Central Government or the State Government or any authority or body established by or under any law or controlled or funded by the Central or State Government should accept, issue, create, retain and preserve any document in the form of electronic records or effect any monetary transaction in the electronic form.