http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/8/schedule/paragraph/2/enactedCoronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022King's Printer for Scotland2023-04-27 Schedule Temporary justice measures Part 1Courts and tribunals: conduct of business by electronic means etc.Chapter 1DocumentsSending electronically and to a solicitor 2 1 Any requirement (however expressed) that a document of a type mentioned in paragraph 3(1) be given to a person may be fulfilled by— a transmitting it to the person electronically, or b transmitting it (electronically or otherwise) to a solicitor engaged to act on the person’s behalf in relation to the proceedings in question. 2 For the purposes of this paragraph a electronic transmission of a document by one person (“the sender”) to another person (“the recipient”) must be effected in a way that the recipient has indicated to the sender that the recipient is willing to receive the document, b the recipient’s indication of willingness to receive a document in a particular way may be— i specific to the document in question or generally applicable to documents of that kind, ii expressed specifically to the sender or generally (for example on a website), iii inferred from the recipient having previously been willing to receive documents from the sender in that way and not having indicated unwillingness to do so again, c the sender’s uploading of a document to an electronic storage system from which the recipient is able to download the document may constitute electronic transmission of the document from the sender to the recipient. 3 In this paragraph, references to giving a person a document include— a serving a document on a person, b sending a document to a person, and c lodging a document with, or otherwise apply to or petitioning, a court or tribunal.
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