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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications - Validity

211: Validity of information

You could also call this:

“Electronic information is just as legally valid as paper information”

You should know that information is still considered valid and has legal meaning even if it’s in electronic form. This means that if something is written in a computer file or sent in an email, it can still be legally important. Also, if an electronic message mentions some information and is meant to make that information legally important, it doesn’t lose its legal effect just because it was referred to in an electronic message. So, whether information is on paper or in a computer, it can still be legally valid and important.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications: Validity

211Validity of information

  1. To avoid doubt, information is not denied legal effect solely because it—

  2. is in electronic form or is in an electronic communication:
    1. is referred to in an electronic communication that is intended to give rise to that legal effect.

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