Representa
tions on issue of
certificate
220. (1) A certification authority shall, by the issue
of a certificate, represent to a person who
reasonably relies on the certificate or a digital
signature verifiable by the public key referred to in
the certificate that the certification authority has
issued the certificate in accordance with any
certification practice statement incorporated by
reference in the certificate or of which the relying
person has notice.
(2) In the absence of any certification practice
statement, the certification authority shall, subject
to subsection (3), represent that
(a) it has complied with all applicable require
ments of this Act in issuing the certificate,
and where it has published the certificate or
otherwise made it available to a person
relying on it, that the subscriber referred to
in the certificate has accepted it;
(b) the subscriber identified in the certificate
holds the private key corresponding to the
public key referred to in the certificate;
(c) the subscriber's public key and private key
constitute a functioning key pair;
(d) the information in the certificate is accurate,
unless it has stated in the certificate, or
incorporated by reference in the certificate
a statement, that the accuracy of specified
information is not confirmed; and
(e) it has no knowledge of any material fact
which would, if it had been included in the
certificate, adversely affect the reliability of
the representations in paragraphs (a) to (d).
(3) Where there is a certification practice statement
which has been incorporated by reference in the
certificate, or of which the person relying on it has
notice, subsection (2) applies to the extent that the
representations are not inconsistent with the
certification practice statement.
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