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“certification authority” means an entity licensed under section
28 to manage and issue certificates and public keys;
“certification practice statement” means a statement issued by
a certification authority specifying the practices that the
certification authority employs in issuing a certificate;
“certificate revocation list” means a list of certificates that have
been revoked by the issuing certification authority before
their scheduled expiration date and are no longer trusted
certificates;
“certification service” means a service of—
(a) issuing certificates necessary for giving digital signatures
or digital seals to users;
(b) enabling the verification of digital signatures or digital seals
given on the basis of certificates;
(c) implementing procedures for suspension, termination of
suspension and revocation of certificates;
(d) checking the revocation status of the certificate and
advising the relying party; or
(e) issuing cross-pair certificates;
“commerce business entity” means an entity that provides
ecommerce services;
“communication” means oral, written, wire or electronic
communication;
“Competition and Consumer Protection Commission” means the
Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
established by the Competition and Consumer Protection
Act, 2010;
“computer” means equipment or any part thereof, that perform
predetermined arithmetic, logical, routing, processing or
storage operations in accordance with set instructions and
includes input devices, output devices, processing devices,
computer data storage mediums and other equipment and
devices related to, or connected with the computer system;
“computer network” means the interconnection of one or more
computers or an information system through—
(a) the use of satellite, microwave, terrestrial line or other
communication media; or
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