(Created 2 March 2007, updated 2 July 2008).
Legal bodies are legally required to include certain information on "business letters" including those sent by electronic mail.
"Business letter" does not have a formal definition in law but any email formally committing the Institute to some action will certainly be included. Personal communications will not. When you are sending an email message that is a business letter, you MUST include the following information:
This is also available as a text file.
Some emails require a disclaimer but these are rarely appropriate for business emails.
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