Section 35
Section 35 of IT Act 2000. Certifying Authority to issue Digital Signature Certificate.
Certifying Authority to issue Digital Signature Certificate.
(1) Any person may make an application to the Certifying Authority for the issue of a Digital Signature Certificate in such form as may be prescribed by the Central Government (2) Every such application shall be accompanied by such fee not exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees as may be prescribed by the Central Government, to be paid to the Certifying Authority:
Provided that while prescribing fees under sub-section (2) different fees may be prescribed for different classes of applicants'.
(3) Every such application shall be accompanied by a certification practice statement or where there is no such statement, a statement containing such particulars, as may be specified by regulations.
(4) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the Certifying Authority may, after consideration of the certification practice statement or the other statement under sub-section (3) and after making such enquiries as it may deem fit, grant the Digital Signature Certificate or for reasons to be recorded in writing, reject the application:
Provided that no Digital Signature Certificate shall be granted unless the Certifying Authority is satisfied that- (a) the applicant holds the private key corresponding to the public key to be listed in the Digital Signature Certificate;
(b) the applicant holds a private key, which is capable of creating a digital signature;
(c) the public key to be listed in the certificate can be used to verify a digital signature affixed by the private key held by the applicant:
Provided further that no application shall be rejected unless the applicant has been given a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed rejection. Sec. 1]
Section 35, IT Act 2000 (Act 21 of 2000).
Cross-references
Extracted from the operative text of the enactments themselves. Every destination below exists in our corpus.
Questions about Section 35
How do I find court cases under Section 35 of the IT Act 2000?
In judgments and charge sheets this section is written several ways, and each form finds a different set of orders. These search the full text of every order eCourtsIndia holds, best matches first: IT Act 2000 35, section 35 IT Act 2000, section 35 of the IT Act 2000. Each opens the full list of orders on eCourtsIndia, where it can be narrowed by court, year and outcome.
What should I read with Section 35 of the IT Act 2000, and has it changed?
4 other provisions in this corpus refer back to it.
When was the IT Act 2000 enacted?
IT Act 2000 was enacted in 2000 as Act 21 of 2000. India Code records no commencement date for it. It is in force as at the date shown on this page.
Other sections of this Act
Source and method. Compiled from the enactments of Parliament and of the State legislatures as published on India Code, and republished together with commentary and other original matter under section 52(1)(q)(ii) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Structured, cross-referenced and maintained by eCourtsIndia. Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/9fed5ba2-020c-4042-a2ae-bd4e74c12996.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/f135081a-75c5-4afc-858a-12b1dc439853/content). This page is not a substitute for legal advice.