Electronic Commerce Act 2006 · Updated to 1 Nov 2012 · Part III · Fulfilment of Legal Requirements by Electronic Means
12. Original
Feedback & supportWhere any law requires any document to be in its original form, the requirement of the law is fulfilled by a document in the form of an electronic message if—
electronic message
“electronic message” means an information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic means;
there exists a reliable assurance as to the integrity of the information contained in the electronic message from the time it is first generated in its final form; and
the electronic message is accessible and intelligible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.
For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)—
the criteria for assessing the integrity of the information shall be whether the information has remained complete and unaltered, apart from the addition of any endorsement or any change which arises in the normal course of communication, storage and display; and
the standard of reliability required shall be assessed in the light of the purpose for which the document was generated and in the light of all other relevant circumstances.
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