Section 396: Timing and location of things done electronically

Communications Act 2003 · 2003 c. 21View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 6: Miscellaneous and Supplemental

The Secretary of State may by order make provision specifying, for the purposes of the enactments specified in section 394(2), the manner of determining—

the times at which things done under those enactments by means of electronic communications networks are done; and
the places at which such things are so done, and at which things transmitted by means of such networks are received.

The provision made by subsection (1) may include provision as to the country or territory in which an electronic address is to be treated as located.

An order made by the Secretary of State may also make provision about the manner of proving in any legal proceedings—

that something done by means of an electronic communications network satisfies the requirements of the enactments specified in section 394(2) for the doing of that thing; and
the matters mentioned in subsection (1)(a) and (b).

An order under this section may provide for such presumptions to apply (whether conclusive or not) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

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