Section 14B: Use of automated message systems
This section is inserted by The Electronic Transactions (Amendment) Act 2026, section 8.
consolidated text (as at 2012, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
14B. Use of automated message systems
A contract formed or performed by the interaction of an automated message system
and a natural person, or by the interaction of automated message systems, shall not
be denied validity or enforceability on the sole ground that no natural person reviewed
or intervened in each of the individual actions carried out by the automated message
systems or the resulting contract.
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Questions this section answers
- Is a contract still valid if it was formed entirely by automated systems with no human involved?