Section 9Part 2 — Legal Requirements Respecting Electronic Records
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Where a statutory provision, rule of law, contract or deed requires conclusive evidence of the original form of a document, record or information to be presented or retained, that requirement shall be met by the presentation or retention of an electronic record if the document, record or information is accurately represented therein.
Paragraph (a) shall apply if the requirement for the presentation or retention of evidence of the original form of document, record or information is in the form of an obligation or if the statutory provision, rule of law, contract or deed provides consequences if conclusive evidence of the original form of document, record or information is not provided.
Where a statutory provision, rule of law, contract or deed requires a document, record or information to be presented or retained in its original form and such document, record or information was first generated in its final form as an electronic record, that requirement shall be met by the presentation or retention of an electronic record if the document, record or information is accurately represented therein.
Paragraph (a) shall apply if the requirement to present or retain the document, record or information in its original form is in the form of an obligation or if the statutory provision, rule of law, contract or deed provides consequences if the original form of the document, record or information is not presented or retained.
For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), the document, record or information is accurately represented where it has remained complete and unaltered from the time it was first generated in its final form, whether as an electronic record or on any other medium, apart from the application of an information security procedure, or apart from —
the addition of an endorsement; or
an immaterial change, which arises in the normal course of communication, translation, conversion, storage or display.