7.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (3), (5) and (6), every application or document referred to in regulation 4(1) must be filed, delivered or conveyed by an authorised user or an authorised agent using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations and such other requirements as may be imposed by the Registrar or the State Coroner.
(2) The requirement in paragraph (1) for the filing, delivery or conveyance of any such application or document is satisfied by the filing, delivery or conveyance of a single copy of the application or document using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations.
(3) Despite paragraph (1), the Registrar or any Coroner may allow to be filed, delivered or conveyed any application or document referred to in regulation 4(1) by any means other than the electronic filing service.
(4) The form of any application or document referred to in regulation 4(1) must be as set out in such form as the Registrar or the State Coroner may require.
(5) Where a party —
(a)
is an authorised user or an authorised agent; and
(b)
intends to tender a document as evidence,
the party must file, before the commencement of the inquiry or as directed by a Coroner where the Coroner has decided under section 25(2) of the Act not to hold an inquiry, an electronic reproduction of the document using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations and such other requirements as may be imposed by the Registrar or the State Coroner.
(6) A Coroner may, in the Coroner’s discretion, allow a party to tender a document as evidence, even though the party has not complied with paragraph (5).
(7) Any application or document which is filed, delivered or conveyed through the electronic filing service by an authorised user using an identification code is deemed to have been so filed, delivered or conveyed by the authorised user and with the intention of the authorised user to do so.
(8) Any application or document which is filed, delivered or conveyed through the electronic filing service by an authorised agent of an authorised user using an identification code is deemed to have been so filed, delivered or conveyed —
(a)
on behalf of and with the authority of the authorised user; and
(b)
with the intention of the authorised user to do so.
(9) To avoid doubt, every application or document which is filed with, or delivered or conveyed to, a Coroner’s Court using an identification code in compliance with the security procedures of the electronic filing service is to be treated as a secure electronic record within the meaning of the Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 88).