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provide the decryption assistance,
specified in the decryption direction concerned, to the authorised person concerned.
(2) In complying with a decryption direction, a decryption key holder(a)
must only disclose such decryption key or provide such decryption
assistance which is necessary to obtain access to the encrypted
information specified in that decryption direction or to put that
encrypted information in an intelligible form;
(b)
may only disclose the decryption key or provide the decryption
assistance to the authorised person who executes that decryption
direction or assists with the execution thereof; and
(c)
may not disclose any other information, which is not specified in that
decryption direction, relating to the customer in respect of whose
encrypted information the decryption key has been disclosed or the
decryption assistance has been provided.
(3) A decryption key holder to whom a decryption direction is addressed and who is in
possession of both the encrypted information and the decryption key thereto(a)
may use any decryption key in his or her possession to provide
decryption assistance; and
(b)
must, in providing such decryption assistance, make a disclosure of
the encrypted information in an intelligible form.
(4) A decryption key holder who, in terms of a decryption direction, is required to
provide decryption assistance in respect of any encrypted information, will be regarded as
having complied with that requirement if he or she(a)
instead of providing such decryption assistance, discloses any
decryption key to the encrypted information that is in his or her
possession; and
(b)
makes such a disclosure, in accordance with the decryption direction
concerned, to the authorised person to whom, and by the time by
which, he or she was required to provide the decryption assistance.
(5) If a decryption key holder to whom a decryption direction is addressed, is(a)
not in possession of the encrypted information; or
(b)
incapable, without the use of a decryption key that is not in his or her
possession, to comply fully with that decryption direction,
the decryption key holder concerned must endeavour to comply, to the best of his or her
ability, with that decryption direction.
(6) If a decryption key holder to whom a decryption direction is addressed, is in
possession of different decryption keys, or combinations of decryption keys, to the
encrypted information(a)
it will not be necessary, for purposes of complying with the decryption
direction concerned, for the decryption key holder to disclose any
decryption keys in addition to those the disclosure of which, alone, is
sufficient to enable the authorised person to whom they are disclosed
to obtain access to the encrypted information and to put it into an
intelligible form; or
(b)
the decryption key holder may select which of the decryption keys, or
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