The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Written and electronic communication

42.—(1) All applications, statements of commitment, representations, notices and requests to which these Regulations apply shall be made in writing.

(2) “Writing” in paragraph (1) shall include an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(1)which has been recorded and is consequently capable of being reproduced provided that–

(a) any document of the type referred to in paragraph (1) shall only be sent to the Scottish Ministers by an electronic communication if the Scottish Ministers have represented that electronic communication is a means by which persons can send such a document to them; and

(b) notifications required to be made by the Scottish Ministers to any person shall only be made by an electronic communication if the intended recipient has used the same form of electronic communication in communicating with the Scot tish Ministers for the purposes of these Regulations or has otherwise represented that the form of electronic communication to be used by the Scottish Ministers is a means by which the Scottish Ministers can communicate with them.

(1)

2000 c. 7; the definition of “electronic communication”in section 15(1) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), section 406(1) and Schedule 17, paragraph 158.