Department of Employment and Social Development Act

Marginal note:Electronic manner of filing documents

• 72 (1) Unless another manner of filing a document or information is expressly required by a provision of the Canada Pension Plan, the Old Age Security Act or the Employment Insurance Act or any of their regulations, or a term or condition of any program which is supported by grants or contributions under section 7, the filing of an electronic version of the document or information is to be considered as the filing of a document or information in accordance with the provision or the term or condition.

• Marginal note:Power to prescribe form or manner of filing

  (2) A provision of the Canada Pension Plan, the Old Age Security Act or the Employment Insurance Act or any of their regulations, or a term or condition of any program which is supported by grants or contributions under section 7, that provides for a power to issue, prescribe or in any other manner establish a form or to establish the manner of filing a document or information includes the power to do so with respect to an electronic document or information.

• Marginal note:Written documents or information

  (3) A requirement under a provision of the Canada Pension Plan, the Old Age Security Act or the Employment Insurance Act or any of their regulations, or a term or condition of any program which is supported by grants or contributions under section 7, that a document be in writing or information be provided in writing is satisfied by an electronic document or information if the electronic document or information

  • (a) is readable or perceivable so as to be usable for subsequent reference;

  • (b) is in a format that does not prevent it from being retained by the recipient; and

  • (c) meets the prescribed requirements, if any.

• Marginal note:Signatures

  (4) A requirement under a provision of the Canada Pension Plan, the Old Age Security Act or the Employment Insurance Act or any of their regulations, or a term or condition of any program which is supported by grants or contributions under section 7, for a signature is satisfied by an electronic signature if the electronic signature

  • (a) is reliable for the purposes for which it is required;

  • (b) is reliably linked with the electronic document in respect of which the signature is required; and

  • (c) meets the prescribed requirements, if any.

• Meaning of filing

  (5) In this section, filing includes all manner of transmitting, regardless of how it is designated.