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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Electronic transactions - Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions - Legal requirement: retention

231: Extra conditions for electronic communications

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“Keeping important details when saving electronic messages”

If you need to keep information from an electronic message, you must do more than just save the message. You also need to keep information that shows where the message came from, where it was sent to, and when it was sent and received. This extra information needs to be easy to find and use later if someone needs to look at it.

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Part 4 Electronic transactions
Application of legal requirements to electronic transactions: Legal requirement: retention

231Extra conditions for electronic communications

  1. In addition to the conditions specified in section 230, if a person is required to retain information that is contained in an electronic communication,—

  2. the person must also retain such information obtained by that person as enables the identification of—
    1. the origin of the electronic communication; and
      1. the destination of the electronic communication; and
        1. the time when the electronic communication was sent and the time when it was received; and
        2. the information referred to in paragraph (a) must be readily accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.

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