17—Insertion of sections 51 and 52
After section 50 insert:
51—Production of records kept by computer or other process
If a person who keeps information by computer or other process is required
under an Act—
(a) to
produce the information or a document containing the information to a body or
person; or
(b) to
make the information or a document containing the information available for
inspection by a body or person,
then, unless the body or person otherwise directs—
(c) the
requirement obliges the person to produce or make available for inspection, as
the case may be, a document that reproduces the information in a form capable
of being understood by the body or person; and
(d) the
production to the body or person of the document in that form complies with
the requirement.
52—Bodies corporate and signing or execution of documents
If an Act requires or authorises a document to be signed or executed by a
person and the person is a body corporate, the Act will be taken to require or
authorise the affixing of the common seal of the body to the document, or the
signing of the document on behalf of the body, in accordance with the Act
(whether or not of this State) under which the body is incorporated.