South Australian Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1929 - SECT 59A

59A—Interpretation

In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears—

"computer" means a device that is by electronic, electro-mechanical, mechanical or other means capable of recording and processing data according to mathematical and logical rules and of reproducing that data or mathematical or logical consequences thereof;

"computer output" or "output" means a statement or representation (whether in written, pictorial, graphical or other form) purporting to be a statement or representation of fact—

            (a)         produced by a computer; or

            (b)         accurately translated from a statement or representation so produced;

"data" means a statement or representation of fact that has been transcribed by methods, the accuracy of which is verifiable, into the form appropriate to the computer into which it is, or is to be, introduced.