{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-act-2000/section-7C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-act-2000/section-7C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/7",
  "legislation_title": "Electronic Communications Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-act-2000",
  "path": "section/7C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7C",
  "heading": "Electronic documents and related certificates",
  "text": "(1) In any legal proceedings an electronic document shall be admissible in evidence in relation to any question as to the authenticity of an electronic transaction.\n(2) For the purposes of this section an electronic document is anything stored in electronic form, including text or sound, and visual or audiovisual recording.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 7A-7D inserted (22.7.2016) by The Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/696), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/7/section/7C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:26.247736+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}