Regulation 18 Validation of an electronic communicationI1
United Kingdom
A prescribed electronic method must incorporate an electronic validation process.
Unless the contrary is proved—
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;
the time of making of 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
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.