Law No. 20 of 2014 Concerning Electronic Transactions
bodies regarding electronic data.
Article (36) addresses the right of individuals to request the competent
authorities stipulates in Article (32) to delete or amend personal information.
Chapter Eight addresses the new penalties and criminalization. Article
(37) specifies the electronic crimes, which include the illegal log-in to the
electronic data processing system, issuance of authentication certificates
without a license, causing damage or impairment of the electronic signature,
using a defective or false electronic signature, document or record knowingly,
unlawfully accessing the electronic signature or system, or violating the
provisions of Article (32) and items A and B of the first paragraph of Article (35).
The penalty imposed thereon is an imprisonment of a period not exceeding 3
years and a fine not less than five thousand dinars and not exceeding twenty
thousand dinars, or either of those penalties with the right of confiscation and
publication.
Article (38) convicts the submission of invalid data in the registration
application submitted by the licensee who obtains the license for providing
electronic authentication services. The penalty imposed is an imprisonment of
a period not exceeding 1 year and a fine not less than three thousand dinars
and not exceeding ten thousand dinars, or either of these penalties.
Article (39) specifies the responsibility of the natural individual, and decides
on punishing the person responsible for the actual management with the
same penalties imposed due to the violations of the provisions of the law.
Article (40) grants the public prosecutor, alone, the jurisdiction over
investigation, action and pleading in the crimes set forth under this Law and
related crimes.
Article (41) grants the judicial to the competent personnel who are specified
by the competent minister in a resolution issued by him.
Article (42) stipulates the admissibility of the public prosecution of the
consolation request from the person who committed the crime for the first
time.
Article (43) addresses the non-prejudice to the provisions contained in the
legalizations.
Article (44) assigns the competent minister to issue of the Executive By-law.
Article (45) assigns the prime minister and ministers to enforce this law.
Article (46) stipulates that the law shall be published and shall be effective
from the date of approving the Executive By-Law.
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