‘‘deed or document’’

for the purpose of any act of registration, recordal, execution or filing in terms of the Deeds Registries Act and Sectional Titles Act or any other law, means a deed or document in the form of a data message as defined in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, generated, submitted, received or stored by electronic means in the electronic deeds registration and recordal system, and includes scanned images of a deed or document;

[Definition substituted by Deeds Registries Amendment Act, 2024 (Act No. 20 of 2024), Notice No. 5649, GG51730, dated 10 December 2024]