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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

216: Place of receipt

You could also call this:

“Where the law thinks you got an electronic message”

When you receive an electronic message, the law says it’s considered to be received at your place of business. If you have more than one place of business, it’s received at the one that’s most closely connected to the deal you’re making. If that doesn’t apply, then it’s received at your main place of business. If you don’t have a place of business at all, the message is considered to be received at your home.

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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

216Place of receipt

  1. An electronic communication is taken to be received at—

  2. the addressee's place of business; or
    1. if the addressee 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 addressee's principal place of business; or
        2. in the case of an addressee who does not have a place of business, the addressee's ordinary place of residence.

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