Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purposes

1. Purposes

The purposes of this Act are-

   (a)  to recognise that transactions effected electronically are not by that
        reason alone invalid;

   (b)  to provide for the meeting of certain legal requirements as to writing
        and signatures by electronic communication;

   (c)  to permit documents to be produced to another person by electronic
        communication;

   (d)  to permit the recording and retention of information and documents in
        electronic form;

   (e)  to provide for the determination of time and place of dispatch and
        receipt of electronic communications;

   (f)  to stipulate when an electronic communication will bind its purported
        originator.