Rule 5, West Bengal Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (Licensing) Rules, 2026 [S5B-9AF]

Electronic records.—A record or return required by these rules may be maintained and furnished in electronic form in Form 2A, and a record so maintained shall be preserved for the period for which the corresponding record in physical form is required to be preserved, shall be capable of being produced for inspection on request by the Presiding Officer in a form legible to him, and shall be copied to a separate medium at intervals of not more than forty-five days; and every printer of election material who maintains a record in electronic form shall intimate that fact to the Chief Electoral Officer within three days of beginning to do so.