Electronic Transactions and Trust Services Law · Federal Decree-Law 46 of 2021
Article 11
Chapter Two: Electronic Transactions > Automated Electronic Transactions
English translation
1. A contract may be made between Automated Electronic Mediums that include one or more Electronic Information Systems that are prepared and programmed in advance for this purpose. Such contract shall be valid, enforceable and legally effective even in the absence of personal or direct interference by any natural person in the process of making the contract in these systems.
2. A contract may be made between an automated Electronic Information System in the possession of a particular person and another person if the latter knows, or is supposed to know, that such system will make or execute the contract automatically.
Official translation, as published by the portal.
Official Arabic text
المعاملات الإلكترونية المؤتمتة
.1 يجوز أن يتم التعاقد بين وسائط إلكترونية مؤتمتة متضمنة نظام معلومات إلكتروني أو أكثر تكون معدة ومبرمجة مسبقاً للقيام بذلك، ويكون التعاقد صحيحاً ونافذاً ومنتجاً لآثاره القانونية حتى في حالة عدم التدخل الشخيي أو المباشر لأيّ شخص طبيعي في عملية إبرام العقد في هذه الأنظمة.
.2 يجوز أن يتم التعاقد بين نظام معلومات إلكتروني مؤتمت بحوزة شخص وبين شخص آخر إذا كان الأخير يعلم أو من المفترض أن يعلم أن ذلك النظام سيقوم بإبرام العقد أو تنفيذه تلقائياً.
What it means when you sign
This article deals with contracts made by automated systems. A contract may be made between automated electronic mediums that include one or more electronic information systems prepared and programmed in advance for that purpose. Such a contract is valid, enforceable and legally effective even if no natural person personally or directly intervenes in making it in those systems.
A contract may also be made between an automated electronic information system belonging to one person and another person, if the other person knows, or is supposed to know, that the system will make or execute the contract automatically.
When you are about to sign or accept terms on a platform that processes orders automatically, this article means a contract can be formed by the system without a person reviewing it, and it can still bind. A party that knows, or is supposed to know, that a system handles the contract automatically may be bound by what the system does. A clause that denies the effect of automated acceptance, orders or confirmations may run into this article.
Not yet cited in a Fahm report; shown because it sits in the same chapter as one that is.
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