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(2) Where the recipient determines not to rely on a digital signature
under this section, the recipient shall promptly notify the signer
of its determination not to rely on a digital signature and the
grounds for that determination.
Digitally signed message deemed to be written document
64. (1) A message shall be as valid, enforceable and effective as
if it had been written on paper if—
(a) it bears in its entirety a digital signature; and
(b) that digital signature is verified by the public key listed
in a certificate which—
(i) was issued by a licensed certification authority;
and
(ii) was valid at the time the digital signature was created.
(2) Nothing in this Act shall preclude any message, document,
or record from being considered written or in writing under any
other applicable law.
Digitally signed message deemed to be original document
65. A copy of a digitally signed message shall be as valid,
enforceable and effective as the original of the message unless it
is evident that the signer designated an instance of the digitally
signed message to be a unique original, in which case only that
instance constitutes the valid, enforceable and effective message.
Authentication of digital signatures
66. A certificate issued by a licensed certification authority shall
be an acknowledgement of a digital signature verified by reference
to the public key listed in the certificate, regardless of whether
words of an express acknowledgement appear with the digital
signature and regardless of whether the signer physically appeared
before the licensed certification authority when the digital signature
was created, if that digital signature is—
(a) verifiable by that certificate; and
(b) affixed when that certificate was valid.