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ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT 1999 - NOTES

Act No. 162 of 1999 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 1 July 2007
incorporating amendments up to Act No. 21 of 2007

The text of any of those amendments not in force
on that date is appended in the Notes section

The operation of amendments that have been incorporated may be
affected by application provisions that are set out in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney‑General's Department, Canberra

  

  

  

Contents

Part 1--Introduction                                                                                                               1

1............ Short title [see Note 1] ....................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement [see Note 1] .............................................................. 1

3............ Object ................................................................................................. 1

4............ Simplified outline ................................................................................ 1

5............ Definitions .......................................................................................... 2

6............ Crown to be bound ............................................................................. 3

7............ External Territories ............................................................................. 4

Part 2--Application of legal requirements to electronic communications    5

Division 1--General rule about validity of transactions for the purposes of laws of the Commonwealth                                                                                                                         5

8............ Validity of electronic transactions ...................................................... 5

Division 2--Requirements under laws of the Commonwealth                6

9............ Writing ................................................................................................ 6

10.......... Signature ............................................................................................. 8

11.......... Production of document ..................................................................... 9

12.......... Retention .......................................................................................... 12

13.......... Exemptions from this Division ......................................................... 14

Division 3--Other provisions relating to laws of the Commonwealth 16

14.......... Time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications 16

15.......... Attribution of electronic communications ........................................ 17

Part 3--Miscellaneous                                                                                                        19

16.......... Regulations ....................................................................................... 19

Schedule 1--Exemption of migration and citizenship documents from section 11 20

1............ Exempt migration documents ........................................................... 20

2............ Exempt citizenship documents ......................................................... 21

3............ Schedule does not limit section 13 .................................................... 21

Notes                                                                                                                                             23

  

Notes to the Electronic Transactions Act 1999

Note 1

The Electronic Transactions Act 1999 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 162, 1999 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

For all relevant information pertaining to application, saving or transitional provisions see Table A.

Table of Acts

Act

Number
and year

Date
of Assent

Date of commencement

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Electronic Transactions Act 1999

162, 1999

10 Dec 1999

15 March 2000 (see Gazette 1999, No. GN10)

 

Statute Law Revision Act 2005

100, 2005

6 July 2005

Schedule 1 (item 13): (a)

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Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Act 2007

21, 2007

15 Mar 2007

Schedules 1-3: 1 July 2007 (see s. 2(1) and F2007L01653)
Remainder: Royal Assent

Sch. 3 (items 14, 20)

(a)     Subsection 2(1) (item 9) of the Statute Law Revision Act 2005 provides as follows:

                 (1)   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision(s)

Commencement

Date/Details

9.  Schedule 1, item 13

Immediately after the commencement of paragraph 11(6)(a) of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999.

15 March 2000

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted     am. = amended       rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

Part 2

 

Division 2

 

S. 11..................................

am. No. 100, 2005

Schedule 1

 

C. 2................................

rs. No. 21, 2007

Table A

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Australian Citizenship (Transitionals and Consequentials) Act 2007
(No. 21, 2007)

Schedule 3

14  Definition

In this Part:

commencement day means the day on which sections 2A to 54 of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 commence.

20  Application--Electronic Transactions Act 1999

The amendment made by item 27 of Schedule 1 applies in relation to documents required or permitted to be produced on or after the commencement day.