IEA Section 85A — Presumption as to electronic agreements

Summary

The court will assume that an electronic record that looks like an agreement and has the digital signatures of the people involved was actually signed by them using their digital signatures. This means the court treats the document as validly signed unless there is evidence to the contrary.

Official Text

The Court shall presume that every electronic record purporting to be an agreement containing the digital signatuers of the parties was so concluded by affixing the digital signature of the parties.

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §85 — Presumption as to electronic agreements