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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications - Default rules about dispatch and receipt of electronic communications

213: Time of dispatch

You could also call this:

“When an electronic message is considered sent”

When you send an electronic message, it’s considered sent as soon as it leaves your control and enters another system. This could be when your email goes from your computer to the internet, or when your text message leaves your phone.

An information system is any setup that can create, send, receive, store, show, or work with electronic messages. This includes things like email servers, text messaging systems, or social media platforms.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications: Default rules about dispatch and receipt of electronic communications

213Time of dispatch

  1. An electronic communication is taken to be dispatched at the time the electronic communication first enters an information system outside the control of the originator.

  2. For the purposes of this section and section 214, information system means a system for producing, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, or otherwise processing electronic communications.

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