New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WORKERS COMPENSATION COMMISSION RULES 2006 - REG 5.3

5.3 Electronic lodging of documents

(1) In any proceedings, a document may be lodged on behalf of a party, by means of the ECM system, by:

(a) the party, or

(b) a person who is authorised to sign documents on the party’s behalf, or

(c) a person who has been directed to lodge the document by a person who is so authorised.

(2) When lodged by means of the ECM system, a document that is required to be signed by a person is taken:

(a) to have been duly signed, and

(b) to have been duly authenticated for the purposes of section 14E of the Electronic Transactions Act 2000 ,

if the person’s name is printed where his or her signature would otherwise appear.

(3) A document that is lodged by means of the ECM system is so lodged as soon as it is received by the Commission, and is registered as soon as it is accepted by the Registrar.

(4) The Registrar must register a document that is lodged by means of the ECM system unless the Registrar refuses to accept the document under rule 4.1 (7).

(5) Notice, and the date, of the lodging and registering of a document is to be given, by means of the ECM system, to the person by whom the document was lodged.