Source document: https://docs-lawep.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/1694500781385.pdf (Belize)
Resolution Authorizing the Accession of the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts Motion, 2022.
WHEREAS, the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (hereinafter called “the Convention’) was adopted on 23rd November 2005, and entered into force on 1st March 2013; AND WHEREAS, the objective of the Convention is to inter alia facilitate the use of electronic communications in international trade by assuring that contracts concluded, and other communications exchanged electronically are as valid and enforceable as their traditional paper-based equivalents; AND WHEREAS, the Government of Belize is desirous of acceding to the Convention pursuant to its article 16; AND WHEREAS, section 61(A)(2)(a) of the Belize Constitution, as amended by the Belize Constitution (Sixth Amendment) Act (No.
13 of 2008), provides that the Senate shall authorize the accession to any treaty by the Government of Belize; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate authorizes the Government of Belize to accede to the Convention, a full text of each hereto annexed.