Corporations Amendment (Corporate Insolvency Reforms) Act 2020 (130 of 2020)

Schedule 4   Virtual meetings and electronic communications

Part 1   Definitions relating to virtual meetings and electronic communications

Corporations Act 2001

1   Section 9

Insert:

document means any record of information, and includes:

(a) anything on which there is writing; and

(b) anything on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and

(c) anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else; and

(d) a map, plan, drawing or photograph.

electronic communication means:

(a) a communication of information in the form of data, text or images by means of guided and/or unguided electromagnetic energy; or

(b) a communication of information in the form of speech by means of guided and/or unguided electromagnetic energy, where the speech is processed at its destination by an automated voice recognition system.

nominated electronic address , in relation to the addressee of an electronic communication, means:

(a) the most recent electronic address nominated by the addressee to the originator of the electronic communication as the electronic address for receiving electronic communications; or

(b) if:

(i) the addressee has nominated an electronic address as mentioned in paragraph (a) and the originator knows, or there are reasonable grounds to believe, that the address is not a current electronic address for the addressee; or

(ii) the addressee has not nominated an electronic address as mentioned in paragraph (a);

an electronic address that the originator believes on reasonable grounds to be a current electronic address for the addressee for receiving electronic communications.

receive , in relation to an electronic communication, has a meaning affected by section 105A.

sent , in relation to an electronic communication, has a meaning affected by section 105A.

virtual meeting technology means any technology that allows a person to participate in a meeting without being physically present at the meeting.