Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Act 2008
187Regulations—records kept electronically
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187 Regulations—records kept electronically (1) If a document that is required to be kept under this Act is kept in electronic form, a regulation may require that the electronic form of the document be recorded or retained on a particular kind of data storage device. (2) Subsection (1) applies despite the Electronic Transactions Act 2001, section 11 (1) (c) and (2) (d) (Retention of information and documents). Note Section 11 (1) (c) and (2) (d) provide for regulations under the Electronic Transactions Act 2001 to prescribe data storage devices.
Chapter 12 Regulations about regulated substances and regulated therapeutic (3) For the Electronic Transactions Act 2001, a regulation under subsection (1) is taken to be a regulation under that Act. data storage device—see the Electronic Transactions Act 2001, dictionary.