Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000

to recognise that transactions effected electronically are not by that reason alone invalid;

to provide for the meeting of certain legal requirements as to writing and signatures by electronic communication;

to provide for witnessing by audio visual link;

to permit documents to be produced to another person by electronic communication;

to permit the recording and retention of information and documents in electronic form;

to provide for the determination of time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications;

to stipulate when an electronic communication will bind its purported originator.