New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT 2000 - SECT 14E

14E Requirements for signatures or seals

(1) Any provision of any law of this jurisdiction that requires a document that is filed with, or issued by, an ECM court to be signed or sealed is satisfied, in the case of a document that is filed or issued by means of the ECM system, if the document:

(a) is authenticated by means of a facsimile of the relevant signature or seal, or

(b) is authenticated in some other manner in accordance with rules of court.

(2) If authenticated as referred to in subsection (1) (a) or (b), a document that is filed with, or issued by, an ECM court by means of the ECM system has the same effect as a document that has been duly signed or sealed.