“computer system” means a device or collection of devices, including input and output support devices
and excluding calculators which are not programmable and capable of being used in conjunction with
external files, which contain computer programmes, electronic instructions, and data, that performs
logic, arithmetic, data storage and retrieval, communication control and other functions;
“Controller” means the controller of Certifying Authorities appointed under section 16 (1);
“data” means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions which are being
prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner and is intended to be processed, is being
processed or has been processed in a computer system or computer network and may be in any form
(including computer printouts, magnetic or optical storage media, punched cards, punched tapes) or
stored internally in the memory of the computer;
“digital signature” means the authentication of any electronic record by a subscriber by means of an
electronic method or procedure in accordance with section 3;
“Digital Signature Certificate” means a Digital Signature Certificate issued under section 34;
“electronic form” with reference to information means any information generated, sent, received or
stored in any computer storage media such as magnetic, optical, computer memory or other similar
devices;
“electronic record” means data, record or data generated, image or sound stored, received or sent in an
electronic form;
“function”, in relation to a computer, includes logic, control, arithmetical process, deletion, storage and
retrieval and communication or telecommunication from or within a computer;
“information” includes data, text, images, sound, codes and databases;
“intermediary” with respect to any particular electronic message, means any person who on behalf of
another person receives, stores or transmits that message or provides any service with respect to that
message;
“law” includes any instrument that has the force of law and any unwritten rule of law;
“key pair” in an asymmetric crypto system, means a private key and its mathematically related public
key, which are so related that the public key can verify a digital signature created by the private key;
“licence” means a licence granted to a Certifying Authority under section 26;
“originator” means a person who sends, generates, stores or transmits any electronic message or causes
any electronic message to be sent, generated, stored or transmitted to any other person but does not
include an intermediary;
“prescribed' means prescribed by regulation made under this Act;
“private key” means the key of a key pair used to create a digital signature;
“Public Authority” means a Ministry, department, division or agency of the Government or a statutory
corporation or a limited liability company which is directly or ultimately under the control of the
Government or any other body which is carrying out a governmental function or service or a body or
person specified by an Act;
“public key” means the key of a key pair used to verify a digital signature and listed in the Digital
Signature Certificate;
“secure system” means computer hardware, software and procedure that —
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