Queensland Consolidated Acts

ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS (QUEENSLAND) ACT 2001 - SECT 16

16 Requirement to produce document

(1) If, under a State law, a person is required to produce 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 produces, by an electronic communication, an electronic form of the document in the circumstances stated in subsection (2) .

(2) The circumstances are that—

(a) having regard to all the relevant circumstances when the communication was sent, 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 communication was sent, 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) the person to whom the document is required to be produced consents to the production, by an electronic communication, of an electronic form of the document.

(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.