<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79682</law_id><section_number>59.1-488</section_number><catch_line>Effect of change or error</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="42.1">Uniform Electronic Transactions Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If a change or error in an <span class="dictionary">electronic record</span> occurs in a transmission between parties to a <span class="dictionary">transaction</span>, the following rules apply:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> If the parties have agreed to use a <span class="dictionary">security procedure</span> to detect changes or errors and one <span class="dictionary">party</span> has conformed to the procedure, but the other <span class="dictionary">party</span> has not, and the nonconforming <span class="dictionary">party</span> would have detected the change or error had that <span class="dictionary">party</span> also conformed, the conforming <span class="dictionary">party</span> may avoid the effect of the changed or erroneous <span class="dictionary">electronic record</span>. <a id="paragraph-285500" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> In an <span class="dictionary">automated transaction</span> involving an individual, the individual may avoid the effect of an <span class="dictionary">electronic record</span> that resulted from an error made by the individual in dealing with the <span class="dictionary">electronic agent</span> of another <span class="dictionary">person</span> if the <span class="dictionary">electronic agent</span> did not provide an opportunity for the prevention or correction of the error and, at the time the individual learns of the error, the individual: <a id="paragraph-285501" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2A" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Promptly notifies the other <span class="dictionary">person</span> of the error and that the individual did not intend to be bound by the <span class="dictionary">electronic record</span> received by the other <span class="dictionary">person</span>; <a id="paragraph-285502" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#2A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2B" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Takes reasonable steps, including steps that conform to the other <span class="dictionary">person</span>&#x2019;s reasonable instructions, to return to the other <span class="dictionary">person</span> or, if instructed by the other <span class="dictionary">person</span>, to destroy the consideration received, if any, as a result of the erroneous <span class="dictionary">electronic record</span>; and <a id="paragraph-285503" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#2B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2C" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Has not used or received any benefit or value from the consideration, if any, received from the other <span class="dictionary">person</span>. <a id="paragraph-285504" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#2C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> If neither paragraph (1) nor paragraph (2) applies, the change or error has the effect provided by other <span class="dictionary">law</span>, including the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of mistake, and the parties&#x2019; <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, if any. <a id="paragraph-285505" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Paragraphs (2) and (3) may not be varied by <span class="dictionary">agreement</span>. <a id="paragraph-285506" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/59.1-488/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, c. 995.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
