(1) If, under a State law, a person is required to keep, for a particular
period, a document that is in the form of paper, an article or other material,
the requirement is taken to have been met if the person keeps, or causes
another person to keep, an electronic form of the document for the period in
the circumstances stated in subsection (2) .
(2) The circumstances are
that—
(a) having regard to all the relevant circumstances when the
electronic form of the document was generated, the method of generating the
electronic form of the document provided a reliable way of maintaining the
integrity of the information contained in the document; and
(b) when the
electronic form of the document was generated, it was reasonable to expect the
information contained in the electronic form of the document would be readily
accessible so as to be useable for subsequent reference; and
(c) if a
regulation requires the electronic form of the document to be kept on a
particular kind of data storage device, the requirement has been met for the
period.
(3) For subsection (2) (a) , the integrity of information contained
in a document is maintained only if the information has remained complete and
unaltered, apart from—
(a) the addition of any endorsement; or
(b) any
immaterial change;
arising in the normal course of communication, storage or
display.