Section 8C: Validity of electronic transferable records
This section is inserted by Act No 5 of 2026, section 6.
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.
8C. Validity of electronic transferable records
Where an enactment requires a transferable document
or instrument, that requirement shall be met by an electronic
transferable record if –
(a) the electronic record contains the information that
would be required to be contained in a paper-based
transferable document or instrument; and
(b) a reliable method is used to –
(i) identify the record as the electronic transferable
record;
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(ii) render that electronic record capable of being
subject to control from its creation until it ceases
to have any effect or validity; and
(iii) retain the integrity of that electronic record, by
ensuring that the information contained in the
electronic transferable record, including any
authorised change that arises from its creation
until it ceases to have any effect or validity, has
remained complete and unaltered apart from
any change which arises in the normal course of
communication, storage and display.