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Article 25 Legal effects of electronic signatures

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

1.

An electronic signature shall not be denied legal effect and admissibility as evidence in legal proceedings solely on the grounds that it is in an electronic form or that it does not meet the requirements for qualified electronic signatures.

2.

A qualified electronic signature shall have the equivalent legal effect of a handwritten signature.

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Art. 25(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/89), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 21; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)