No. 33
Electronic Transactions
12.__(1) Unless otherwise prescribed by law, a person may
decide the use of a digital signature, digital signature certificate or
any other mode of authentication, of his choice.
(2) The Authority may, by notice published in the Gazette,
approve digital signatures, certification authorities offering digital
certificates, or authentication of a foreign information security
service provider, for use by the public.
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Recognition
of digital
signature
certificates
and digital
signatures
(3) The Authority shall ensure that digital certificates comply
with international best practices and standards.
(4) A certification authority shall be liable for damages incurred
by any person who reasonably relied on a digital certificate issued
by the certification authority if__
(a) all or part of the information contained in the digital
certificate on the date of issuance was incorrect;
(b) all or part of the data required for the digital certificate tobe
regarded as qualified were incomplete;
(c) the digital certificate has been issued without checking that
the signatory is duly entitled to receive such digital certificate;
or
(d) the certification authority has not registered the revocation
of the digital certificate or has not made this information
available to third parties or both.
(5) A certification authority shall not be responsible for damage
caused by the use of a digital certificate that exceeds fixed limits on
the use or the value of transactions for which the digital
certificate has been used, if this condition has been made available
to the users prior to the use of the certificate.
13.__(1) Where a law requires a signature, statement or
document to be notarized, acknowledged, verified or made under
oath, that requirement shall be satisfied if the electronic signature of
the person authorized to perform those acts is affixed to an
electronic record.
(2) Where a law requires or permits a person to provide a
certified copy of a document and the document exists in paper or in
another physical form, that requirement shall be satisfied if an
electronic copy of the document is certified to be a true copy by
using an electronic signature of the certifying person.
14.__(1) A requirement in any written law for multiple copies of
a document to be submitted to a single recipient at the same time
shall be satisfied by the submission of a single electronic record of
Notarization,
acknowledgement
and
certification
Other
requirements