100A. Automation

(1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, provide that the provisions contained in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), as amended from time to time, and the rules made and directions given under that Act, including the provisions relating to digital signatures, electronic governance, attributation, acknowledgement and dispatch of electronic records, secure electronic records and secure digital signatures and digital signature certificates as are specified in the said notification, shall, insofar as they may, as far as feasible, apply to the procedures under this Act.

(2) Where a notice or communication is prepared on any automated data processing system and is properly served on any dealer or person, then, the said notice or communication shall not be required to be personally signed by the Commissioner or any other officer subordinate to him, and the said notice or communication shall not be deemed to be invalid only on the ground that it is not personally signed by the Commissioner.