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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 10 July 2000

Electronic Commerce Act, 2000 (No. 27)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part 1 Preliminary and General (ss. 1-8)
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 1. Short title and commencement.
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 2. Interpretation.
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 3. Regulations.
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 4. Laying of orders and regulations before Houses of Oireachtas.
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 5. Expenses of Minister.
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 6. Prosecution of offences.
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 7. Offences by bodies corporate.
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 8. Penalties.
Part 2 Legal Recognition and Non-Discrimination in respect of Electronic Signatures, Originals, Contracts and Related Matters (ss. 9-28)
Legal Recognition of Electronic Communications and Information in Electronic Form (ss. 9-23)
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 9. Electronic form not to affect legal validity or enforceability.
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 10. Excluded laws.
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 11. Certain laws not to be affected.
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 12. Writing.
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 13. Signatures.
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 14. Signatures required to be witnessed.
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 15. Consumer law to apply.
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 16. Documents under seal.
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 17. Electronic originals.
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 18. Retention and production.
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 19. Contracts.
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 20. Acknowledgement of receipt of electronic communications.
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 21. Time and place of dispatch and receipt of electronic communications.
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 22. Admissibility.
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 23. Defamation law to apply.
General (ss. 24-28)
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 24. Electronic form not required.
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 25. Prohibition of fraud and misuse of electronic signatures and signature creation device.
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 26. Activities partly outside the State.
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 27. Investigative procedures.
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 28. Confidentiality of deciphering data.
Part 3 Certification Services (ss. 29-30)
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 29. Accreditation and supervision of certification service providers.
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 30. Liability of certification service providers.
Part 4 Registration of Domain Names (ss. 31-35)
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 31. Interpretation: Part 4.
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 32. Registration of '.ie' domain names.
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 33. Commission may impose levy.
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 34. Commission to have access to domain database.
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 35. Power of Commission to designate interim registration authority.
Schedule - Annexes to Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Community Framework for Electronic Signatures
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 Schedule, Annex I Requirements for qualified certificates
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 Schedule, Annex II Requirements for certification-service-providers issuing qualified certificates
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 Schedule, Annex III Requirements for secure signature-creation devices
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