Act 7 Electronic Signatures Act “valid certificate” means a certificate which— 2011 (a) a licensed certification service provider has issued; (b) has been accepted by the subscriber listed in it; (c) has not been revoked or suspended; and (d) has not expired, but a transactional certificate is a valid certificate only in relation to the digital signature incorporated in it by reference; “verify a digital signature” means, in relation to a given digital signature, message and public key, to determine accurately that— (a) the digital signature was created by the private key corresponding to the public key; and (b) the message has not been altered since its digital signature was created; “writing” or “written” includes any handwriting, typewriting, printing, electronic storage or transmission or any other method of recording information or fixing information in a form capable of being preserved. (2) For the purposes of this Act, a certificate shall be revoked by making a notation to that effect on the certificate or by including the certificate in a set of revoked certificates. (3) The revocation of a certificate does not mean that it is destroyed or made illegible. 3. Equal treatment of signature technologies. Nothing in this Act shall be applied so as to exclude, restrict or deprive of legal effect any method of creating an electronic signature that satisfies the requirements for a signature in this Act or otherwise meets with the requirements of any other applicable law. 11