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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions - Legal requirement: provision and production of, and access to, information

232: Legal requirement to provide or produce information that is in paper or other non-electronic form

You could also call this:

“You can give information electronically instead of on paper if you follow certain rules”

You can provide information in electronic form instead of paper or other non-electronic forms if you meet certain conditions. These conditions are:

The way you provide the electronic information must keep its integrity intact. This means the information stays accurate and complete for its intended purpose.

You need to make sure the electronic information is easy to access and use later on.

The person who is supposed to receive the information must agree to get it electronically. If you’re sending it through electronic communication, like email, they need to agree to that too.

If you follow these rules, you’re meeting the legal requirement to provide or produce information, even though you’re not using paper.

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Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions: Legal requirement: provision and production of, and access to, information

232Legal requirement to provide or produce information that is in paper or other non-electronic form

  1. A legal requirement to provide or produce information that is in paper or any other non-electronic form is met by providing or producing the information in electronic form, whether by means of an electronic communication or otherwise, if—

  2. the form and means of the provision or production of the information reliably assures that the integrity of the information is maintained, given the purpose for which, and the circumstances in which, the information is required to be provided or produced; and
    1. the information is readily accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference; and
      1. the person to whom the information is required to be provided or produced consents to the information being provided or produced in an electronic form and, if applicable, by means of an electronic communication.

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