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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications - Default rules about dispatch and receipt of electronic communications

215: Place of dispatch

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“Where the law thinks you sent an electronic message from”

When you send an electronic message, the law considers where you sent it from. If you have a business, it’s considered sent from your place of business. If you have more than one business location, it’s considered sent from the place that’s most related to what the message is about. If that doesn’t apply, it’s considered sent from your main business location. If you don’t have a business, the law considers the message sent from where you usually live.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Improving certainty in relation to electronic information and electronic communications: Default rules about dispatch and receipt of electronic communications

215Place of dispatch

  1. An electronic communication is taken to be dispatched from—

  2. the originator’s place of business; or
    1. if the originator has more than 1 place of business,—
      1. the place of business that has the closest relationship with the underlying transaction; or
        1. if there is no place of business to which subparagraph (i) applies, the originator's principal place of business; or
        2. in the case of an originator who does not have a place of business, the originator's ordinary place of residence.

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