Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
Act 772
“certification service provider” means a person providing an
authentication product or service in the form of a digital
certificate attached to, incorporated in or logically associated
with an electronic record;
“Certifying Agency” means the Certifying Agency established
under this Act;
“clear days” means complete days excluding the day of dispatch.
“computer” means a device or a group of inter-connected or
related devices, including the Internet, one or more of which,
pursuant to a programme, performs automatic processing of
data or any other function but does not include
(a) portable hand held calculator,
(b) an automated typewriter or typesetter,
(c) a similar device which is non-programmable or which
does not contain any data storage facility, or
(d) any other device that the Minister may prescribe in
the Gazette;
“computer output” or “output” means a statement or representation, whether in written, printed, pictorial, graphical, electronic, digital or any other form, purporting to be a statement
or representation of fact
(a) produced by a computer, or
(b) accurately translated from a statement or representation so produced,
“computer service” includes computer time, computer output,
data processing and the storage or retrieval of a programme
or data;
“consumer” means an individual person who enters or intends
entering into an electronic transaction with a supplier as the
end user of the goods or services offered by that supplier;
“controller” means a person who electronically requests, collects,
collates, processes or stores personal information from or in
respect of a data subject;
“Court” means any judicial, quasi-judicial or other administrative tribunal established by law;
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