New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
Reprint as at 29 November 2010
| Public Act | 2002 No 35 |
| Date of assent | 17 October 2002 |
| Commencement | see section 2 |
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
This Act is administered by the Ministry of Economic Development.
6 Further provision relating to interpretation
Part 2
Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications
Default rules about dispatch and receipt of electronic communications
9 When default rules in sections 10 to 13 apply
Part 3
Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions
15 When legal requirement can be met by electronic means
16 Consent to use of electronic technology
17 When integrity of information maintained
18 Legal requirement that information be in writing
19 Legal requirement to record information in writing
20 Legal requirement to give information in writing
21 Legal requirements relating to layout and format of certain information and writing materials
22 Legal requirement for signature
23 Legal requirement that signature or seal be witnessed
24 Presumption about reliability of electronic signatures
25 Legal requirement to retain document or information that is in paper or other non-electronic form
26 Legal requirement to retain information that is in electronic form
27 Extra conditions for electronic communications
Provision and production of, and access to, information
28 Legal requirement to provide or produce information that is in paper or other non-electronic form
29 Legal requirement to provide or produce information that is in electronic form
30 Legal requirement to provide access to information that is in paper or other non-electronic form
31 Legal requirement to provide access to information that is in electronic form
33 Legal requirement relating to content of information
35 Review of enactments and provisions excluded from Part 3
37 Authority to prescribe electronic forms and requirements for using electronic forms
38 Related amendment to Interpretation Act 1999
