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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

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

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“You can show paper information electronically if it's accurate and the person agrees”

If someone asks you to let them see information that’s on paper or in another non-electronic form, you can show it to them electronically instead. But there are two things you need to make sure of first.

First, you need to be sure that the electronic version is just as good as the original. This means it should be accurate and complete, and it should work for what the person needs it for.

Second, the person who wants to see the information must agree to look at it electronically. You can’t just decide to show it to them this way without asking them first.

If both of these things are true, then showing the information electronically is just as good as showing the original paper version, according to the law.

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

234Legal requirement to provide access to information that is in paper or other non-electronic form

  1. A legal requirement to provide access to information that is in paper or any other non-electronic form is met by providing access to the information in electronic form if—

  2. the form and means of access to the information reliably assure that the integrity of the information is maintained, given the purpose for which, and the circumstances in which, access to the information is required to be provided; and
    1. the person to whom access is required to be provided consents to accessing the information in that electronic form.

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