35. Issue of false certificate, etc.(1) Every director, secretary and other responsible officer by
whatever designation called, connected with the management of the affairs of a certification service
provider, which:___
(a) issues, publishes or acknowledges a certificate containing false or misleading information;
(b) fails to revoke or suspend a certificate after acquiring knowledge that any information
contained therein has become false or misleading;
(c) fails to revoke or suspend a certificate in circumstances where it ought reasonably to have
been known that any information contained in the certificate is false or misleading; and
(d) issues a certificate as accredited certification service provider while its accreditation is
suspended or revoked;
shall be guilty of any offence under this Ordinance.
(2) The offence under subsection (1) shall be punishable with imprisonment either description of
a term not exceeding seven years, or with fine which may extend to ten million rupees, or with both.
(3) The certification service provider or its employees specified in sub section (1), shall also be
liable, upon conviction, to pay compensation for any foreseeable damage suffered by any person or
subscriber as a direct consequence of any of the events specified in clauses (a) to (d) of subsection
(1).
(4) The compensation mentioned in subsection (3) shall be recoverable as arrears of land
revenue.
36. Violation of privacy of information. Any person who gains or attempts to gain access to any
information system with or without intent to acquire the information contained therein or to gain
knowledge of such information, whether or not he is aware of the nature or contents of such
information, when he is not authorised to gain access, as aforesaid, shall be guilty of an offence under
this Ordinance punishable with imprisonment of either description of a term not exceeding seven
years, or fine which may extend to one million rupees, or with both.
37. Damage to information system, etc.(1) Any person who does or attempts to do any act with
intent to alter, modify, delete, remove, generate, transmit or store any information through or in any
information system knowingly that he is not authorised to do any of the foregoing, shall be guilty of
an offence under this Ordinance.
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