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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions - Preliminary provisions

219: When legal requirement can be met by electronic means

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“You can use electronic methods to follow legal rules if you do it the right way”

You can meet a legal requirement using electronic means if you follow the rules in sections 222 to 236 and any rules made under section 239(1).

A legal requirement is a rule in a law that this part of the Act applies to. It also includes parts of laws that have consequences if you don’t follow them.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions: Preliminary provisions

219When legal requirement can be met by electronic means

  1. A legal requirement can be met by electronic means if the applicable provisions in sections 222 to 236, and any applicable regulations made under section 239(1), are complied with.

  2. For the purposes of this subpart, legal requirement—

  3. means a requirement in an enactment to which this subpart applies; and
    1. includes a provision in an enactment to which this subpart applies that provides consequences that depend on whether or not the provision is complied with.

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