2841. A document may be reproduced either by generating a copy in the same medium or in a medium that is based on the same technology, or by transferring the information contained in the document to a medium based on different technology.
Where it reproduces an original document or a technology-based document fulfilling the functions of an original as provided for in section 12 of the Act to establish a legal framework for information technology (chapter C-1.1), a copy, provided it is certified, or a document resulting from the transfer of information, provided it is documented, may legally stand in lieu of the reproduced document. In the case of a document in the possession of the State, a legal person, a partnership or an association, certification is effected by a person in authority or the person responsible for conserving the document.
1991, c. 64, a. 2841; 2001, c. 32, s. 78; I.N. 2014-05-01.