Electronic Communications and Transactions [No. 4 of 2021 157 (i) a loss caused by reliance on a misrepresentation in the certificate of any fact that the certification authority is required to confirm; or (ii) failure to comply with requirements for issuance of the certificate and representations on issuance of the certificate. 46. A certification authority may suspend a certificate— (a) on request by the subscriber listed in the certificate or a person duly authorised by that subscriber; (b) by court order; or (c) if there are reasonable grounds to believe that incorrect data has been entered in the certificate or that it is possible to use the private key corresponding to the public key contained in the certificate without the consent of the certificate holder. 47. A certification authority shall, after the suspension of a certificate under section 46 publish a signed notice of the suspension in the repository. 48. A certification authority shall revoke a certificate— (a) on receiving a request for revocation by the subscriber listed in the certificate and confirming that the person requesting the revocation is the subscriber, or is an agent of the subscriber with authority to request the revocation; (b) on receiving a certified copy of the subscriber’s death certificate, or on confirming by other evidence that the subscriber is dead; or (c) on presentation of documents effecting a dissolution of the subscriber, or on confirming by other evidence that the subscriber has been dissolved or ceases to exist. 49. (1) A certification authority shall revoke a certificate, regardless of whether the subscriber listed in the certificate consents, where the certification authority confirms that— (a) a material fact represented in the certificate is false; (b) a requirement for issuance of the certificate was not satisfied; (c) the certification authority’s private key or trustworthy system was compromised in a manner materially affecting the certificate’s reliability; (d) an individual subscriber is dead; or (e) a subscriber has been dissolved, wound up or otherwise ceases to exist. Suspension of certification authority certificate Notice of suspension Revocation of Cetificate Revocation without subscriber’s consent

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