Electronic Commerce Act 2006 · Updated to 1 Nov 2012 · Part III · Fulfilment of Legal Requirements by Electronic Means
15. Prescribed form
Feedback & supportWhere any law requires any document to be in a prescribed form, the requirement of the law is fulfilled by a document in the form of an electronic message if the electronic message is—
electronic message
“electronic message” means an information generated, sent, received or stored by electronic means;
formatted in the same or substantially the same way as the prescribed form;
accessible and intelligible so as to be usable for subsequent reference; and
capable of being retained by the other person.
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electronic
“electronic” means the technology of utilizing electrical, optical, magnetic, electromagnetic, biometric, photonic or other similar technology;