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24.—(1) In these Regulations any requirement to—
(a)give an attending practitioner’s certificate or a medical examiner’s certificate or other document to a person may be satisfied by causing that certificate or document to be given by an electronic communication; and
(b)sign an attending practitioner’s certificate or medical examiner’s certificate may be satisfied by providing an electronic signature but only where the certificate to be signed is also in electronic form.
(2) In this regulation—
(a)“electronic communication” has the meaning given in section 15(1) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000(1);
(b)“electronic signature” has the meaning given in section 7(2) of that Act(2).
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 24 in force at 9.9.2024, see reg. 1(1)
2000 c. 7; the definition of “electronic communication” was amended by the Communication Act 2003 (c. 21), Schedule 17, paragraph 158.
Section 7 was amended by S.I. 2016/696, Schedule 3, paragraph 1.
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