1. Facilitate electronic transactions by using reliable electronic messages or records.
2. Remove any obstacles or challenges encountering electronic transactions resulting
from ambiguities associated with writing and signature and enhancing the basic legal
structure for secured electronic transactions.
3. Facilitate the transfer of electronic documents and subsequent amendments.
4. Minimize cases of forgery on electronic correspondences and subsequent amendments
and committing frauds on electronic transactions
5. Set up unified principles for rules and regulations and standards relating to
authentication and safety of electronic correspondences and records.
6. Consolidate the public trust in the safety and authenticity of electronic transactions,
correspondences and records.
7. Develop the electronic transactions at the national Gulf and Arabic domain by using
the electronic signature.
Article (3)
The provisions of this Law shall apply to electronic transactions, records, signatures and to
any electronic messages.
This law shall not apply to:
a. Transactions and matters related to Personal Status Law such as marriage, divorce,
wills and endowments.
b. Court procedures, judicial summons, proclamations, summons, search orders, arrest
orders and judicial decrees.
c. Any document required by Law to be authenticated by the Notary Public.
Article (4)
1. The provisions of this law shall apply to transaction between the parties who agree on
conducting their transactions by electronical means and the consent of each party may
be inferred from his conduct. As to the Government, its consent to electronical dealing
shall be given expressly.
2. The parties involved in originating or sending or receiving or storing or processing
electronic records may agree on dealing in a way different to any of the rules provided
for in Chapter 2 up to 4 of this Law.
3. Any agreement between the parties to conduct any transaction by electronical means
shall not be obligatory on either party to conduct other transactions by the same
means.
Article 5
The competent Authority shall determine the system of electronical payments after agreement
with the Central Bank of Oman.
Article 6
The intermediary and the Certification Service provider shall, on their own cost, provide all
technical components such as equipments, devices, systems and programs that allow the
security authorities to enter their systems to achieve national security requirements provided
that the provisions of such service shall be in line with the provisions of the technical
components according to the state of the art techniques. The Ministry of Finance shall provide
all requirements needed for connecting all hardwares of used by these security authorities to
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