Part 6

Miscellaneous and Supplemental

Notifications etc. and electronic working

Timing and location of things done electronically
396
1
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—
a
the times at which things done under those enactments by means of electronic communications networks are done; and
b
the places at which such things are so done, and at which things transmitted by means of such networks are received.
2
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.
3
An order made by the Secretary of State may also make provision about the manner of proving in any legal proceedings—
a
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
b
the matters mentioned in subsection (1)(a) and (b).
4
An order under this section may provide for such presumptions to apply (whether conclusive or not) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.