Section 38Part 9 — Miscellaneous
Prohibition on key escrow requirements
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Nothing in this Law shall confer a power on the Governor, or a minister or official member or the Authority —
by conditions of an approval under Part VI, or
by any regulations under this Law,
to impose a requirement on any person to deposit a key for electronic records with another person.
In this section —
"key", in relation to electronic records, means any code, password, algorithm or other data the use of which (with or without other keys) —
allows access to the electronic record; or
facilitates the putting of the electronic record into an intelligible form,
and references in this section to depositing a key for electronic records with a person include references to doing anything that has the effect of making the key available to that person.
Defined Terms
key
Cross References
- Section 6 of Electronic Transactions Actexternal
Part VI approvals mentioned