Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
“Registry” means an entity licensed by the Registrar to manage
and administer a specific sub domain;
“repository” means the primary register of the information
maintained by a registry;
“second level domain” means the sub domain immediately following the ccTLD;
“security agency” means a body connected with national security;
“service provider” means any person providing information
system services.
“statutory provision” means by or under an Act of Parliament;
“sub domain” means any subdivision of the .gh domain name
space which is the second level domain;
“TCP/IP” means the Transmission Control Protocol Internet
Protocol used by an information system to connect to the
Internet;
“TI-D” means a top level domain of the domain name system;
“third party”, in relation to a service provider, means a subscriber
to the service provider’s services or any other user of the
service provider’s services or a user of information systems;
“transaction” means a transaction of either a commercial or
non-commercial nature and the provision of information
and e-government services;
“unauthorised access” is access of any kind by a person to a
programme or data held in a computer without authority if
(a) the person is not personally entitled to control access
of the kind in question to the programme or data; and
(b) the person does not have consent to access the kind
of programme or data from the person who is entitled
to control access;
“unincorporated body” means an entity registered under the
Registration of Business Names Act, 1962 (Act 151) or any
person carrying on business without a registration or without
a certificate of incorporation;
“universal access” means access by all citizens of Ghana to internet connectivity and electronic transactions;
“webpage” means an electronic record on the World Wide Web;
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