REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8792 June 14, 2000
AN ACT PROVIDING AND USE OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS, PENALTIES FOR UNLAWFUL USE THEREOF, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
PART I SHORT TITLE AND DECLARATION OF POLICY
Section 1. Short Title- This Act shall be known and cited as the "Electronic Commerce Act."
Section 2. Declaration of Policy- The State recognizes the vital role of information and communications technology (ICT) in nation-building; the need to create an information-friendly environment which supports and ensures the availability, diversity and affordability of ICT products and services; the primary responsibility of the private sector in contributing investments and services in ICT; the need to develop, with appropriate training programs and institutional policy changes, human resources for the information age, a labor force skilled in the use of ICT and population capable of operating and utilizing electronic appliances and computers; its obligation to facilitate the transfer and promotions of technology; to ensure network security, connectivity and neutrality of technology for the national benefit; and the need to marshal, organize and deploy national information infrastructures, comprising in both communications network and strategic information services, including their interconnection to the global information networks, with the necessary and appropriate legal, financial, diplomatic and technical framework, systems and facilities.
PART II ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN GENERAL
CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 3. Objective- This Act aims to facilitate domestic and international dealings, transactions, arrangements agreements, contracts and exchanges and storage of information through the utilization of electronic, optical and similar medium, mode instrumentality and technology to recognize the authenticity and reliability of electronic data messages or electronic documents related to such activities and to promote the universal use of electronic transactions in the government and by the general public.
Section 4. Sphere of Application- This Act shall apply to any kind of electronic document used in the context of commercial and non-commercial activities to include domestic and international dealings, transactions, arrangements, agreements contracts and exchanges and storage of information.
Section 5. Definition of Terms- For the purposes of this Act, the following terms are defined, as follows:
(a) "Addressee" refers to a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic data message or electronic document, but does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to that electronic data message or electronic data document."Computer" refers to any device or apparatus singly or interconnected which, by electronic, electro-mechanical, optical and/or magnetic impulse, or other means with the same function, can receive, record, transmit, store, process, correlate, analyze, projects, retrieve, and/or produce information, data, text, graphics, figures, voice, video, symbols or other modes of expression or perform any one or more of these functions.
(b) "Electronic data message" refers to information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, optical or similar means.
(c) "Information and Communications System" refers to a system for generating, sending, receiving, storing, or otherwise processing electronic documents and includes the computer system or other similar device by or in which data is recorded or stored and any procedures related to the recording or storage of electronic document.
(d) "Electronic signature" refers to any distinctive mark, characteristic and/or sound in electronic from, representing the identity of a person and attached to or logically associated with the electronic data message or electronic document or any methodology or procedures employed or adopted by a person and executed or adopted by such person with the intention of authenticating or approving an electronic data message or electronic document.
(e) "Electronic document" refers to information or the representation of information, data, figures, symbols or other modes of written expression, described or however represented, by which a right is established or an obligation extinguished, or by which a fact may be prove and affirmed, which is receive, recorded, transmitted, stored, processed, retrieved or produced electronically.
(f) "Electronic key" refers to a secret code which secures and defends sensitive information that crossover public channels into a form decipherable only with a matching electronic key.
(g) "Intermediary" refers to a person who in behalf of another person and with respect to a particular electronic document sends, receives and/or stores provides other services in respect of that electronic data message or electronic document.
(h) "Originator" refers to a person by whom, or on whose behalf, the electronic document purports to have been created, generated and/or sent. The term does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to that electronic document.
(i) "Service provider" refers to a provider of-
I. Online services or network access or the operator of facilities therefor including entities offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for online communications, digital or otherwise, between or among points specified by a user, of electronic documents of the user's choosing; or
II. The necessary technical means by which electronic documents of an originator may be stored and made accessible to designated or undesignated third party.
Such service providers shall have no authority to modify or alter the content of the electronic document received or to make any entry therein on behalf of the originator, addressee or any third party unless specifically authorized to do so, and who shall retain the electronic document in accordance with the specific request or as necessary for the purpose of performing the services it was engaged to perform.
CHAPTER II LEGAL RECOGNITION OF ELECTRONIC DATA MESSAGES AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS
Section 6. Legal Recognition of Electronic Data Messages- Information shall not be denied validity or enforceability solely on the ground that it is in the form of electronic data message purporting to give rise to such legal effect, or that it is merely incorporated by reference in that electronic data message.
Section 7. Legal Recognition of Electronic documents- Electronic documents shall have the legal effect, validity or enforceability as any other document or legal writing, and-
(a) Where the law requires a document to be in writing, that requirement is met by an electronic document if the said electronic document maintains its integrity and reliability and can be authenticated so as to be usable for subsequent reference, in that–
i. The electronic document has remained complete and unaltered, apart from the addition of any endorsement and any authorized change, or any change which arises in the normal course of communication, storage and display; and
ii. The electronic document is reliable in the light of the purpose for which it was generated and in the light of all relevant circumstances.
(b) Paragraph (a) applies whether the requirement therein is in the from of an obligation or whether the law simply provides consequences for the document not being presented or retained in its original from.
(c) Where the law requires that a document be presented or retained in its original form, that requirement is met by an electronic document if-
i. There exists a reliable assurance as to the integrity of the document from the time when it was first generated in its final from; and
ii. That document is capable of being displayed to the person to whom it is to be presented: Provided, That no provision of this Act shall apply to vary any and all requirements of existing laws on formalities required in the execution of documents for their validity.
For evidentiary purposes, an electronic document shall be the functional equivalent of a written document under existing laws.
This Act does not modify any statutory any statutory rule relating to admissibility of electronic data massages or electronic documents, except the rules relating to authentication and best evidence.
Section 8. Legal Recognition of Electronic Signatures.- An electronic signature on the electronic document shall be equivalent to the signature of a person on a written document if the signature is an electronic signature and proved by showing that a prescribed procedure, not alterable by the parties interested in the electronic document, existed under which-
(a) A method is used to identify the party sought to be bound and to indicate said party's access to the electronic document necessary for his consent or approval through the electronic signature;
(b) Said method is reliable and appropriate for the purpose for which the electronic document was generated or communicated, in the light of all circumstances, including any relevant agreement;
(c) It is necessary for the party sought to be bound, in or order to proceed further with the transaction to have executed or provided the electronic signature; and
(d) The other party is authorized and enable to verify the electronic signature and to make the decision to proceed with the transaction authenticated by the same.
Section 9. Presumption Relating to Electronic Signatures-In any proceedings involving an electronic signature, it shall be presumed that,
(a) The electronic signature is the signature of the person to whom it correlates; and
(b) The electronic signature was affixed by that person with the intention of signing or approving the electronic document unless the person relying on the electronically designed electronic document knows or has noticed of defects in or unreliability of the signature or
สาธารณรัฐดำเนิน 8792 หมายเลข 14 june, 2000การให้พระราชบัญญัติและการใช้ธุรกรรมเชิงพาณิชย์ และไม่ใช่เชิงพาณิชย์อิเล็กทรอนิกส์ บทลงโทษสำหรับการใช้ที่ผิดกฎหมายดังกล่าว และวัตถุประสงค์อื่น ๆมันถูกบัญญัติ โดยวุฒิสภาและราษฎรของฟิลิปปินส์ในคองเกรสประกอบ:ส่วนฉันชื่อเรื่องสั้นและการประกาศนโยบาย1 ส่วน สั้น - เรื่องนี้พระราชบัญญัติจะรู้จัก และเรียกว่าการ "อิเล็กทรอนิกส์พาณิชย์พระราชบัญญัติ"ส่วน 2 ประกาศรัฐ Policy-The ตระหนักถึงบทบาทสำคัญของเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและการสื่อสาร (ICT) ในประเทศสร้าง จำเป็นต้องสร้างสภาพแวดล้อมเป็นข้อมูลที่สนับสนุน และพร้อมใช้งาน ความหลากหลาย และสามารถในการจ่ายผลิตภัณฑ์ ICT และบริการ ความรับผิดชอบหลักของภาคเอกชนในการสนับสนุนการลงทุนและบริการ ICT จำเป็นในการพัฒนา มีโปรแกรมการฝึกอบรมที่เหมาะสมและการเปลี่ยนแปลงสถาบันนโยบาย ทรัพยากรบุคคลในยุคข้อมูล กำลังแรงงานมีทักษะในการใช้ ICT และความสามารถในการปฏิบัติงาน และการใช้เครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและคอมพิวเตอร์ ประชากร ข้อผูกมัดของการอำนวยความสะดวกในการโอนย้ายและโปรโมชั่นของเทคโนโลยี เพื่อให้มั่นใจความปลอดภัยเครือข่าย การเชื่อมต่อ และความเป็นกลางของเทคโนโลยีเพื่อประโยชน์แห่งชาติ และจำเป็นในการรวบรวม จัดระเบียบ และจัดวางโครงสร้างพื้นฐานสารสนเทศแห่งชาติ ประกอบด้วยเครือข่ายการสื่อสารและบริการข้อมูลเชิงกลยุทธ์ รวมทั้งความเกี่ยวข้องกันของข้อมูลทั่วโลกเครือ ข่าย มีความจำเป็น และเหมาะสมตามกฎหมาย การเงิน ทางการทูต และทางเทคนิคกรอบ ระบบและสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกPART II ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN GENERALCHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONSSection 3. Objective- This Act aims to facilitate domestic and international dealings, transactions, arrangements agreements, contracts and exchanges and storage of information through the utilization of electronic, optical and similar medium, mode instrumentality and technology to recognize the authenticity and reliability of electronic data messages or electronic documents related to such activities and to promote the universal use of electronic transactions in the government and by the general public.Section 4. Sphere of Application- This Act shall apply to any kind of electronic document used in the context of commercial and non-commercial activities to include domestic and international dealings, transactions, arrangements, agreements contracts and exchanges and storage of information.Section 5. Definition of Terms- For the purposes of this Act, the following terms are defined, as follows:(a) "Addressee" refers to a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic data message or electronic document, but does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to that electronic data message or electronic data document."Computer" refers to any device or apparatus singly or interconnected which, by electronic, electro-mechanical, optical and/or magnetic impulse, or other means with the same function, can receive, record, transmit, store, process, correlate, analyze, projects, retrieve, and/or produce information, data, text, graphics, figures, voice, video, symbols or other modes of expression or perform any one or more of these functions.(b) "Electronic data message" refers to information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic, optical or similar means.(c) "Information and Communications System" refers to a system for generating, sending, receiving, storing, or otherwise processing electronic documents and includes the computer system or other similar device by or in which data is recorded or stored and any procedures related to the recording or storage of electronic document.(d) "Electronic signature" refers to any distinctive mark, characteristic and/or sound in electronic from, representing the identity of a person and attached to or logically associated with the electronic data message or electronic document or any methodology or procedures employed or adopted by a person and executed or adopted by such person with the intention of authenticating or approving an electronic data message or electronic document.(e) "Electronic document" refers to information or the representation of information, data, figures, symbols or other modes of written expression, described or however represented, by which a right is established or an obligation extinguished, or by which a fact may be prove and affirmed, which is receive, recorded, transmitted, stored, processed, retrieved or produced electronically.
(f) "Electronic key" refers to a secret code which secures and defends sensitive information that crossover public channels into a form decipherable only with a matching electronic key.
(g) "Intermediary" refers to a person who in behalf of another person and with respect to a particular electronic document sends, receives and/or stores provides other services in respect of that electronic data message or electronic document.
(h) "Originator" refers to a person by whom, or on whose behalf, the electronic document purports to have been created, generated and/or sent. The term does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to that electronic document.
(i) "Service provider" refers to a provider of-
I. Online services or network access or the operator of facilities therefor including entities offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for online communications, digital or otherwise, between or among points specified by a user, of electronic documents of the user's choosing; or
II. The necessary technical means by which electronic documents of an originator may be stored and made accessible to designated or undesignated third party.
Such service providers shall have no authority to modify or alter the content of the electronic document received or to make any entry therein on behalf of the originator, addressee or any third party unless specifically authorized to do so, and who shall retain the electronic document in accordance with the specific request or as necessary for the purpose of performing the services it was engaged to perform.
CHAPTER II LEGAL RECOGNITION OF ELECTRONIC DATA MESSAGES AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS
Section 6. Legal Recognition of Electronic Data Messages- Information shall not be denied validity or enforceability solely on the ground that it is in the form of electronic data message purporting to give rise to such legal effect, or that it is merely incorporated by reference in that electronic data message.
Section 7. Legal Recognition of Electronic documents- Electronic documents shall have the legal effect, validity or enforceability as any other document or legal writing, and-
(a) Where the law requires a document to be in writing, that requirement is met by an electronic document if the said electronic document maintains its integrity and reliability and can be authenticated so as to be usable for subsequent reference, in that–
i. The electronic document has remained complete and unaltered, apart from the addition of any endorsement and any authorized change, or any change which arises in the normal course of communication, storage and display; and
ii. The electronic document is reliable in the light of the purpose for which it was generated and in the light of all relevant circumstances.
(b) Paragraph (a) applies whether the requirement therein is in the from of an obligation or whether the law simply provides consequences for the document not being presented or retained in its original from.
(c) Where the law requires that a document be presented or retained in its original form, that requirement is met by an electronic document if-
i. There exists a reliable assurance as to the integrity of the document from the time when it was first generated in its final from; and
ii. That document is capable of being displayed to the person to whom it is to be presented: Provided, That no provision of this Act shall apply to vary any and all requirements of existing laws on formalities required in the execution of documents for their validity.
For evidentiary purposes, an electronic document shall be the functional equivalent of a written document under existing laws.
This Act does not modify any statutory any statutory rule relating to admissibility of electronic data massages or electronic documents, except the rules relating to authentication and best evidence.
Section 8. Legal Recognition of Electronic Signatures.- An electronic signature on the electronic document shall be equivalent to the signature of a person on a written document if the signature is an electronic signature and proved by showing that a prescribed procedure, not alterable by the parties interested in the electronic document, existed under which-
(a) A method is used to identify the party sought to be bound and to indicate said party's access to the electronic document necessary for his consent or approval through the electronic signature;
(b) Said method is reliable and appropriate for the purpose for which the electronic document was generated or communicated, in the light of all circumstances, including any relevant agreement;
(c) It is necessary for the party sought to be bound, in or order to proceed further with the transaction to have executed or provided the electronic signature; and
(d) The other party is authorized and enable to verify the electronic signature and to make the decision to proceed with the transaction authenticated by the same.
Section 9. Presumption Relating to Electronic Signatures-In any proceedings involving an electronic signature, it shall be presumed that,
(a) The electronic signature is the signature of the person to whom it correlates; and
(b) The electronic signature was affixed by that person with the intention of signing or approving the electronic document unless the person relying on the electronically designed electronic document knows or has noticed of defects in or unreliability of the signature or
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