Victorian Current Acts

ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS (VICTORIA) ACT 2000 - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to recognise that transactions effected electronically are not by that reason alone invalid;

        (b)     to provide for the meeting of certain legal requirements as to writing and signatures by electronic communication;

S. 1(ba) inserted by No. 11/2021 s. 63.

        (ba)     to provide for witnessing by audio visual link;

        (c)     to permit documents to be produced to another person by electronic communication;

        (d)     to permit the recording and retention of information and documents in electronic form;

        (e)     to provide for the determination of time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications;

        (f)     to stipulate when an electronic communication will bind its purported originator.