C 2614 2010 No. Electronic Transactions 1 of hazardous materials, pesticides or other toxic or dangerous material; provisions by Parties. 2 (c) To override any rule of law intended for protection of consumers. 3 5. Except as otherwise expressly agreed by the parties to an agreement, Original 4 the provisions of this Act shall apply in generating, sending, receiving, storing Documents. 5 or otherwise processing documents. Admissibility 6 6.—(1) Where an existing law, regulation, rule, practice or procedure, 7 requires information to be presented or retained in its original form, that 8 requirement is met by a document if: 9 (a) there exists a reliable assurance as to the integrity of the information 10 is preserved from the time when it was first generated in its final form as 11 a document; and 12 (b) where it IS required that information be presented, that information is capable of being displayed to the person to whom it is to be presented. 13 of Documents. Electronic 14 (2) Subsection (l) applies whether the requirement therein is in the 15 form of an obligation or of this section the law, regulation, rule, practice 16 or procedure simply provides consequences for the information not being 17 presented or retained in its original form. 18 19 the integrity of information shall be deemed to be reliable assured if: 20 (a) If the information has remained complete and unaltered, apart from the 21 addition of any endorsement and any change which arises in the normal 22 course of communication, storage and display; and (3) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section 23 (b) In determining whether the information has remained complete and 24 unaltered the purpose for which the information was generated and all 25 the relevant circumstances shall be considered. 26 (4) Where a document is required to be presented in multiple copies 27 to a single addressee at the same time, that requirement shall be satisfied by 28 the submission of a single document that is capable of being reproduced by 29 that addressee. 30 31 7.—(1) In any legal proceedings, nothing in the application of the rules (5) This section does not affect immigration and citizenship documents. of evidence shall apply so as to deny the admissibility of any document in