Purpose:
To legally recognize and regulate electronic messages, digital signatures, and online contracts.
Key Highlights:
• Provides legal validity to electronic agreements, records, and signatures.
• Ensures that online transactions are treated the same as physical, paper-based transactions.
• Allows businesses to issue invoices, contracts, and notices electronically.
• Establishes the reliability and admissibility of electronic communications in legal proceedings.
Why it matters for businesses:
This law gives legal certainty to e-commerce operations and protects businesses that rely on digital documentation.
马来西亚电子商务法律
1. 《2006年电子商务法》（Electronic Commerce Act 2006，ECA 2006）
目的：
正式承认并规范电子信息、数码签名和线上合约的法律效力。
重点内容：
- 赋予电子协议、电子记录及电子签名法律效力。
- 确保线上交易与传统纸本交易享有同等法律地位。
- 允许企业以电子方式发出发票、合约及通知。
- 确立电子通讯在法律程序中的可靠性及可采纳性。
此法律为电商业务提供法律保障，使依赖数码文件的商业运作具备法律确定性，并保护从事线上交易的企业。
