http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2006/214/schedule/10

F1SCHEDULE 10Electronic Communication

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

Sch. 10 inserted (20.12.2006) by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Electronic Communications) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/2968), art. 1, art. 3(5), Sch.

PART 3Electronic Communication – Evidential Provisions

Effect of delivering information by means of electronic communication4

1

Any claim, certificate, notice, information or evidence which is delivered by means of an electronic communication shall be treated as having been delivered in the manner or form required by any provision of these Regulations, on the day the conditions imposed—

a

by this Schedule; and

b

by or under an enactment,

are satisfied.

2

The relevant authority may, by a direction, determine that any claim, certificate, notice, information or evidence is to be treated as delivered on a different day (whether earlier or later) from the day provided for in sub-paragraph (1).

3

Information shall not be taken to have been delivered to an official computer system by means of an electronic communication unless it is accepted by the system to which it is delivered.