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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions - Legal requirement: originals

236: Originals

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“Electronic copies can be used instead of original documents for comparison”

You can compare a document with an electronic version of the original instead of the actual original document. This is allowed if the electronic version can be trusted to keep the document’s content accurate and unchanged. This rule applies when the law says you need to compare a document with its original.

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Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions: Legal requirement: originals

236Originals

  1. A legal requirement to compare a document with an original document may be met by comparing that document with an electronic form of the original document if the electronic form reliably assures that the integrity of the document is maintained.

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