Electronic governance remains optional: no person may compel acceptance, issuance, retention, preservation, or monetary transactions in electronic form.

Section 9 does not give any person a right to compel a Ministry, government department, statutory authority, or government-controlled or funded body to accept, issue, create, retain, or preserve documents as electronic records, or to conduct monetary transactions electronically. Electronic governance provisions operate without mandatory electronic acceptance or transaction obligations.

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