Mike Lewis said:
>The Electronic Communications Bill, mentioned in the Queen's Speech
>earlier this month, is designed to promote "electronic commerce and
>electronic government" and will give legal status to "electronic
>signatures". Once law, presumably we can say goodbye to paper declarations
>once and for all.
We'll have to wait to see the precise wording. It could be that only
electronic signatures associated with particular protocols are legally
valid, and that "ordinary" e mail does not qualify.
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Dept of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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