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sign another certificate, hereafter
certification authority certificate;
referred
to
as
a
(b)
any certification practice statement;
(c)
notice of the revocation or suspension of its certification
authority certificate; and
(d)
any other fact that materially and adversely affects either the
reliability of a certificate that the authority has issued or the
authority's ability to carry out its obligations.
(2)
In the event of an occurrence that materially and adversely affects
a certification authority's trustworthy system or its certification authority
certificate, the certification authority shall —
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(a)
notify any person who is known to be or foreseeably will be
affected by that occurrence; or
(b)
act in accordance with procedures governing such an
occurrence specified in its certification practice statement.
Issuing of certificate
(1)
A certification authority may only issue a certificate to a prospective
subscriber where it has (a)
received a request to that effect from the prospective
subscriber; and
(b)
complied with (i)
where it has a certification practice statement, all the
practices and procedures set forth in the certification
practice statement including procedures regarding
identification of the prospective subscriber; or
(ii)
in the absence of a certification practice statement,
the conditions in subsection (2).
(2)
In the absence of a certification practice statement, the certification
authority may only issue a certificate to a prospective subscriber where it has
ascertained that -