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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions - Miscellaneous

240: Authority to prescribe electronic forms and requirements for using electronic forms

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“People who make forms can create online versions and decide how to use them”

If someone is allowed to create a form under a law, they can also make an electronic version of that form. They can decide how the electronic form should be filled out and signed. However, just because they can make an electronic form doesn’t mean they can force people to use it. They can’t make anyone use the electronic form if they don’t want to.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions: Miscellaneous

240Authority to prescribe electronic forms and requirements for using electronic forms

  1. A person who is authorised to prescribe a form under an enactment is authorised—

  2. to prescribe an electronic form for the purposes of that enactment; and
    1. to prescribe requirements in connection with the use of that electronic form, including requirements for its electronic signature.

      1. Nothing in subsection (1) authorises a person to require the use of an electronic form under any enactment.

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