Electronic Transactions Act 2000 (TAS)

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Electronic Transactions Act 2000

An Act to facilitate electronic transactions and for other purposes

[Royal Assent 13 December 2000]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

PART 1Preliminary1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Electronic Transactions Act 2000 . 2CommencementThe provisions of this Act commence on a day or days to be proclaimed. 3InterpretationIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – consent includes consent that can reasonably be inferred from the conduct of the person concerned, but does not include consent given subject to conditions unless the conditions are complied with; data includes the whole or part of a computer program within the meaning of the Copyright Act 1968 of the Commonwealth; data storage device means any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without the aid of any other article or device; electronic communication means – (a) a communication of information in the form of data, text or images by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, or both; or (b) a communication of information in the form of sound by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, or both, where the sound is processed at its destination by an automated voice recognition system; information means information in the form of data, text, images or sound; information system means a system for generating, sending, receiving, storing or otherwise processing electronic communications; information technology requirements includes software requirements; law of this jurisdiction means any law in force in this jurisdiction, whether written or unwritten, but does not include a law of the Commonwealth; non-profit body means a body that is not carried on for the purposes of profit or gain to its individual members and is, by the terms of the body’s constitution, prohibited from making any distribution, whether in money, property or otherwise, to its members; place of business, in relation to a government, an authority of a government or a non-profit body, means a place where any operations or activities are carried out by that government, authority or body; regulations means the regulations made and in force under this Act; this jurisdiction means Tasmania; transaction includes any transaction in the nature of a contract, agreement or other arrangement, and also includes any transaction of a non-commercial nature. 4Act binds CrownThis Act binds the Crown in right of Tasmania and, so far as the legislative power of Parliament permits, in all its other capacities. PART 2Application of legal requirements to electronic communicationsDivision 1General rule about validity of transactions for the purposes of laws of this jurisdiction5Validity of electronic transactions (1) For the purposes of a law of this jurisdiction, a transaction is not invalid because it took place wholly or partly by means of one or more electronic communications. (2)  The general…

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