54 Electronic Transactions (c) the pricing policy; No. 33 (d) the provisions for the restoration of a domain name registration and penalties for late payments; (e) the terms of the domain name registration agreement which registries and the registrar shall adopt and use in registering domain names, including issues in respect of privacy, consumer protection and alternative dispute resolution; (f) the processes and procedures to avoid unfair and anticompetitive practices, including bias to, or preferential treatment of actual or prospective registrants, registries or the registrar, protocols or products; (g) the requirements to ensure that each domain name contains an administrative and technical contact; (h) the creation of new sub-domains; (i) the procedures for ensuring the monitoring of compliance with this Act, including compliance with regular “.mw” domain name and any other Malawian names to be used for domain names space technical audits; (j) any other matter relating to the “.mw” domain name space and any other Malawian names to be used for domain names as may be necessary to achieve the objectives of this Act; (k) declaring certain classes of information to be critical data; (l) establishing procedures for identification of database with critical data; (m) the registration of database with critical data; (n) prescribing minimun standards regarding management, access to transfer and control of databases with critical data; (o) the inspection of databases by the Authority; and (p) any other matter ralating to management, protection, recovery and control of databases with critical data. (2) Notwithstanding section 21 (e) of the General Interpretation Act, the regulations, made under this Act may create offences in respect of any contravention to the regulations, and may for any such contravention impose a fine of up to K5,000,000 and to imprisonment for up to seven years.

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