Act 7
Electronic Signatures Act
“valid certificate” means a certificate which—
2011
(a) a licensed certification service provider has issued;
(b) has been accepted by the subscriber listed in it;
(c) has not been revoked or suspended; and
(d) has not expired,
but a transactional certificate is a valid certificate only in relation to
the digital signature incorporated in it by reference;
“verify a digital signature” means, in relation to a given digital
signature, message and public key, to determine accurately
that—
(a) the digital signature was created by the private key
corresponding to the public key; and
(b) the message has not been altered since its digital
signature was created;
“writing” or “written” includes any handwriting, typewriting,
printing, electronic storage or transmission or any other
method of recording information or fixing information in a
form capable of being preserved.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, a certificate shall be revoked by
making a notation to that effect on the certificate or by including the
certificate in a set of revoked certificates.
(3) The revocation of a certificate does not mean that it is
destroyed or made illegible.
3. Equal treatment of signature technologies.
Nothing in this Act shall be applied so as to exclude, restrict or
deprive of legal effect any method of creating an electronic signature
that satisfies the requirements for a signature in this Act or otherwise
meets with the requirements of any other applicable law.
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