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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Other commercial matters - Bills of lading, sea waybills, and ship’s delivery orders - Liabilities under shipping documents

323: Regulations relating to network or other information technology

You could also call this:

“Rules for using computers and technology with important documents”

If you use a computer network or other technology to do things with important documents, there are special rules. The Governor-General can make these rules. These rules explain how to use this part of the law when you use technology to:

  • Create, sign, give, or move these important documents
  • Do other things with these documents

The Governor-General can change how this part of the law works when you use technology with these documents. They can also add new rules to help explain things better or to help people switch to using technology.

These rules are called “secondary legislation.” This means they are published in a special way so everyone can see them.

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323Regulations relating to network or other information technology

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the application of this subpart to cases where a network or other information technology is used for effecting transactions corresponding to—

  2. the issue, the endorsement, the delivery, or any other transfer of a document to which this subpart applies; or
    1. doing anything else in relation to a document to which this subpart applies.

      1. The regulations may—

      2. make the modifications of the provisions of this subpart that are appropriate in connection with the application of this subpart to any case mentioned in subsection (1); and
        1. contain supplemental, incidental, consequential, and transitional provisions.

          1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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          • Section 323(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).