Section 46
ActIn forceProvision 42 of 88
Section 46
(1)
Unless the licensed certification authority and the subscriber agree otherwise, the licensed certification authority which issued a certificate, which is not a transactional certificate, shall suspend the certificate for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours—
(a)
upon request by a person identifying himself as the subscriber named in the certificate, or as a person in a position likely to know of a compromise of the security of a subscriber’s private key, such as an agent, business associate, employee or member of the immediate family of the subscriber; or
(b)
by order of the Commission under section 33.
(2)
The licensed certification authority shall take reasonable measures to check the identity or agency of the person requesting suspension.