Scope. This regulation applies only to forms that the Retirement Agency permits a participant to submit in an electronic format to the Retirement Agency through the secure access participant portal. The Retirement Agency may establish a secure access participant portal and specify the registration and authentication requirements that participants must satisfy in order to access and use the secure access participant portal. A participant may submit a form through the secure access participant portal by properly completing submission and affixing an electronic signature in the manner and format required by the Retirement Agency. Except when Division II of the State Personnel and Pensions Article requires notarization, and notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a participant who submits a form through the secure access participant portal and satisfies its authentication requirements is not required to have the form acknowledged by a notary public.