Electronic record retention meets statutory preservation duties when accessibility, integrity, and origin-to-receipt metadata are maintained.

Electronic retention satisfies a statutory retention requirement where information remains accessible for subsequent reference, is preserved in its original or accurately reproducible format, and includes details identifying its origin, destination, and despatch or receipt timing. Automatically generated transmission information is excluded from the identification-details requirement. The framework does not apply where a law expressly provides for retention in electronic-record form.

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