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Mercantile Laws – II

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10. “A cheque in the electronic form” means a cheque which contains the exact mirror image
of a paper cheque and is generated, written and signed in a secure system ensuring the
minimum safety standards with the use of .................................. (with or without biometrics
signature) and asymmetric crypto system.
11. The full form of PKI is ..................................
12. Primarily, it is the .................................. of a State who has been empowered to adjudicate
upon any contraventions under sections 43-45 of the Act.
14.6 Penalties, Offences and Adjudication

If any person without permission of the owner or any other person who is in charge of a
computer, computer system or computer network -

 accesses or secures access to such computer, computer system or computer network.
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 Downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data base or information from such
computer, computer system or computer network including information or data held or
stored in any removable storage medium.
 Introduces or causes to be introduced any computer contaminant or computer virus into
any computer, computer system or computer network.

 Damages or causes to be damaged any computer, computer system or computer network,
data, computer data base or any other programmers residing in such computer, computer
system or computer network.
 Disrupts or causes disruption of any computer, computer system or computer network.
 Denies or causes the denial of access to any person authorised to access any computer,
computer system or computer network by any means.
 Provides any assistance to any person to facilitate access to a computer, computer system
or computer network in contravention of the provisions of this Act, rules or regulations
made there under.
 Charges the services availed of by a person to the account of another person by tampering
with or manipulating any computer, computer system, or computer network. He shall be
liable to pay damages by way of compensation not exceeding one crore rupees to the
person so affected.

Notes For the purposes of this section-
 “computer contaminant” means any set of computer instructions that are designed-
 to modify, destroy, record, transmit data or programme residing within a
computer, computer system or computer network, or

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