(1) The following provisions apply for the purposes of the Companies Acts.
(2) A document or information is sent or supplied in hard copy form if it is sent or supplied in a paper copy or similar form capable of being read.
References to hard copy have a corresponding meaning.
(3) A document or information is sent or supplied in electronic form if it is sent or supplied -
(a) by electronic means (for example, by e-mail or fax), or
(b) by any other means while in an electronic form (for example, sending a disk by post).
References to electronic copy have a corresponding meaning.
(4) A document or information is sent or supplied by electronic means if it is -
(a) sent initially and received at its destination by means of electronic equipment for the processing (which expression includes digital compression) or storage of data, and
(b) entirely transmitted, conveyed and received by wire, by radio, by optical means or by other electromagnetic means.
References to electronic means have a co
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