(1) This Part does not require a person to use, provide, or accept information in an electronic form without that person's consent.
(2) For the purposes of this Part and subject to subsection (3)—
(a) a person may consent to use, provide, or accept information in an electronic form subject to conditions regarding the form of the information or the means by which the information is produced, sent, received, processed, stored, or displayed;
(b) consent may be inferred from a person's conduct.
(3) The consent of a public body to accept information in electronic form may not be inferred from the conduct of the public body but must be expressed by communication accessible to the public or to those most likely to communicate with the public body for the particular purpose to which the information relates.
(4) This Part does not authorise a public body to require any person to give, provide or accept information in electronic form without consent.