Section 8Part 2 — Legal Requirements Respecting Electronic Records
Delivery
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Where a document, record or information is required or permitted by any statutory provision, rule of law, contract or deed to be delivered or sent to a person, that requirement or permission may be met by delivery of it in the form of an electronic record if —
the format of the electronic record and the means of delivery is acceptable to the parties; and
where the originator of the electronic record states that the receipt of the electronic record is to be acknowledged, the addressee has knowingly acknowledged the receipt.
Subsection (1) applies whether or not the requirement for delivery or sending is in the form of an obligation or whether or not the statutory provision, rule of law, contract or deed provides consequences for the document, record or information not being delivered or sent.