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Electronic Transactions Act 1999
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C2005C00484 C01
15 March 2000
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30 June 2007
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Part 1—Introduction
1 Short title [see Note 1]
2 Commencement [see Note 1]
3 Object
4 Simplified outline
5 Definitions
6 Crown to be bound
7 External Territories
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Part 2—Application of legal requirements to electronic communications
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Division 1—General rule about validity of transactions for the purposes of laws of the Commonwealth
8 Validity of electronic transactions
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Division 2—Requirements under laws of the Commonwealth
9 Writing
10 Signature
11 Production of document
12 Retention
13 Exemptions from this Division
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Division 3—Other provisions relating to laws of the Commonwealth
14 Time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications
15 Attribution of electronic communications
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Part 3—Miscellaneous
16 Regulations
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Schedule 1—Exemption of migration and citizenship documents from section 11
1 Exempt migration documents
2 Exempt citizenship documents
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3 Schedule does not limit section 13
Notes to the STYLEREF ShortT \* MERGEFORMAT Electronic Transactions Act 1999
