The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003

Electronic and other communications

33.—(1) Except where otherwise provided, any requirement in these Regulations—

(a) to notify, or give notice to, a person of any matter;

(b) to give or send a document to a person;

(c) to inform a person or provide a person with information;

(d) to make enquiries and to receive answers,

may only be satisfied by one of the means in paragraph (3).

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a person giving consent to something or to obtaining another person’s consent to something shall be construed as a reference to giving or receiving that consent by one of the means in paragraph (3).

(3) The means referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are—

(a) giving or receiving in person the notice, document, information, enquiry, answer or consent in paper form; or

(b) sending, transmitting or receiving the notice, document, information, enquiry, answer or consent by post, facsimile or by other electronic means to an address provided for that purpose by the intended recipient,

provided that any information so given, sent or transmitted is in a form which is clearly legible by the intended recipient.