{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2500",
  "legislation_title": "The Machine Games Duty Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/machine-games-duty-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Validation of an electronic communication",
  "text": "(1) A prescribed electronic method must incorporate an electronic validation process.\n(2) Unless the contrary is proved—\n(a) the use of a prescribed electronic method will be presumed to have resulted in the making of an electronic communication to the Commissioners only if this has been successfully recorded as such by the relevant electronic validation process;\n(b) the time of making an electronic communication to the Commissioners using a prescribed electronic method will be presumed to be the time recorded as such by the relevant electronic validation process; and\n(c) the person making an electronic communication to the Commissioners will be presumed to be the person identified as such by any relevant feature of the prescribed electronic method.\n(3) An electronic communication made using a prescribed electronic method carries the same consequences as a communication made in paper form, unless otherwise prescribed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 1.11.2012, see reg. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2500/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:17:40.309650+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}