Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
“critical database” means a crucial set of data in an electronic
record related to national security or the economic well being
of the public determined by the Minister;
“critical database administrator” means the person responsible
for the management and control of a critical database;
“critical electronic record” means an electronic record, group
or classification of electronic record which is declared by
the Minister to be of importance to the protection of the
national security of the Republic or the economic and social
well-being of its citizens;
“cyber inspector” means a staff of the National Information
Technology Agency with power to monitor, investigate,
prosecute any offence under this Act and any other law
enforcement agency acting under any provision of this Act;
“damage”, includes impairment to a computer or the integrity
or availability of a programme or data held in a computer that
(a) causes loss within the period prescribed under the
Limitation Decree, 1972 (N.R.C.D. 54),
(b) modifies or impairs, or potentially modifies or impairs, the medical examination, diagnosis, treatment
or care of a person,
(c) causes or threatens physical injury or death to a person, or
(d) threatens the public interest;
“decryption information” means information or technology
that enables a person to readily retransform or unscramble
an encrypted programme or data from its unreadable and
incomprehensible format to its plain text version;
“device” means any thing or apparatus that is used or capable
of being used to intercept a function of a computer or electronic record;
“digital signature” means data attached to, incorporated in, or
logically associated with other data and which is intended
by the user to serve as a signature;
“domain name” means an alphanumeric designation that is
registered or assigned in respect of an electronic address or
other resource on the Internet;
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