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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payment-and-electronic-money-institution-insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2021/article-256",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2021/1178",
  "legislation_title": "The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payment-and-electronic-money-institution-insolvency-england-and-wales-rules-2021",
  "path": "article/256",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "256",
  "heading": "Authentication",
  "text": "(1) A notice, other document or information given, delivered, sent or supplied in hard copy form is sufficiently authenticated if it is signed by the person giving, delivering, sending or supplying it.\n(2) A notice, other document or information given, delivered or sent in electronic form is sufficiently authenticated—\n(a) if the identity of the sender is confirmed in a manner specified by the recipient, or\n(b) where no such manner has been specified by the recipient, if the communication contains or is accompanied by a statement of the identity of the sender and the recipient has no reason to doubt the truth of that statement.\n(3) If a notice, other document or information is authenticated by the signature of an individual on behalf of—\n(a) a body of persons, the document must also state the position of that individual in relation to the body;\n(b) a body corporate of which the individual is the sole member, the document must also state that fact.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 256 in force at 12.11.2021, see rule 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1178/article/256",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:07:52.488380+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."
}