31. (a) A person dissatisfied with any order or decision made by the Control Board in respect of the
refusal of issuing certificate, imposing a penalty as stipulated, suspension of licence subject to a time
limit or cancellation of the licence or with any order or decision made under sub-section (b) of section
30 may file an appeal to the Central Body within 60 days from the date of passing such order or
decision;
(b) The Central Body may confirm, revise or set aside the order or decision made by the Control Board.
32. The decision made by the Central Body under sub-section (b) of section 31 shall be the final and
conclusive.
Chapter XII
Offences and Penalties
33. Whoever commits any of the following acts by using electronic transactions technology shall, on
conviction be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend from a minimum of 7 years to
a maximum of 15 years and may also be liable to a fine:
(a) doing any act detrimental to the security of the State or prevalence of law and order or community
peace and tranquillity or national solidarity or national economy or national culture.
(b) receiving or sending and distributing any information relating to secrets of the security of the State
or prevalence of law and order or community peace and tranquillity or national solidarity or national
economy or national culture.
34. Whoever commits any of the following acts shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment for
a term which may extend to 5 years or with fine or with both:
(a) sending, hacking, modifying, altering, destroying, stealing, or causing loss and damage to the
electronic record, electronic data message, or the whole or part of the computer programme
dishonestly;
(b) intercepting of any communication within the computer network, using or giving access to any
person of any fact in any communication without permission of the originator and the addressee;
(c) communicating to any other person directly or indirectly with a security number, password or
electronic signature of any person without permission or consent of such person;
(d) creating, modifying or altering of information or distributing of information created, modified or
altered by electronic technology to be detrimental to the interest of or to lower the dignity of any
organization or any person.
35. Any certification authority or any of his officer or employee who violates any of the prohibitions
contained in the order issued by the Control Board shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment
for a term which may extend to 3 years or with fine or with both.
36. Whoever violates any of the prohibitions contained in the rules, notifications and orders issued
under this Law shall, on convition be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 1
year or with fine or with both.
37. Whoever commits any of the following acts shall, on conviction be punished with imprisonment for
a term which may extend to 1 year or with fine or with both:(a) knowingly misrepresents to the certification authority his identity or authorisation in applying for a
certificate or in submitting for suspension or cancellation of a certificate;