(1) If, under a State law, a person is required to record information in
writing, the requirement is taken to have been met if the person records the
information in electronic form in the circumstances stated in subsection (2) .
(2) The circumstances are that—
(a) at the time the information was
recorded, it was reasonable to expect the information would be readily
accessible so as to be useable for subsequent reference; and
(b) if a
regulation requires the information to be recorded on a particular kind of
data storage device, the requirement has been met.
