This ID-Cert is issued to individuals and organizations for encryption and decryption of electronic messages and to support Digital Signatures (for the issue of acknowledgments by the Subscriber upon receipt of encrypted messages) that purport to confirm the identities or other significant characteristics of:

• (A) the individuals who hold a particular key in the case that the individual is also an existing Subscriber of a Personal ID-Cert Class 1 or Personal ID-Cert Class 8; or
• (B) the organizations and identify the Authorized Delegates who hold a particular key and have been duly authorized to make the Digital Signatures for and on behalf of the organizations in the case that the organization is also an existing Subscriber of an Organizational ID-Cert Class 2; or
• (C) the organizations and identify the Authorized Users who hold a particular key and have been duly authorized to make the Digital Signatures for and on behalf of the organizations in the case that the organization is also an existing Subscriber of an Organizational ID-Cert Class 5 or Organizational ID-Cert Class 9.

The normal practice is for the Subscriber to lodge a Subscriber Application for the Encipherment ID-Cert Class 3 at the same time as the application for Personal ID-Cert Class 1, Organizational ID-Cert Class 2, Organizational ID-Cert Class 5, Personal ID-Cert Class 8 or Organizational ID-Cert Class 9, as the case may be.

Where the Subscriber Application is submitted separately for the Encipherment ID-Cert Class 3, the applicant must be an existing Personal ID-Cert Class 1 Subscriber, or an existing Organizational ID-Cert Class 2 Subscriber, or an existing Organizational ID-Cert Class 5 Subscriber, or an existing Personal ID-Cert Class 8 Subscriber or an existing Organizational ID-Cert Class 9 Subscriber at the time of application for the Encipherment ID-Cert Class 3.

The procedures, controls and relevant requirements for an applicant to lodge an application of an Encipherment ID-Cert Class 3, as well as for Digi-Sign to process the application, will be the same as those for the application for a Personal ID-Cert Class 1, or an Organizational ID-Cert Class 2, or an Organizational ID-Cert Class 5, or a Personal ID-Cert Class 8 or an Organizational ID-Cert Class 9, as the case may be.

For the avoidance of doubt, if the Subscriber Application for Encipherment ID-Cert Class 3 is lodged at the same time as the application for Organizational ID-Cert Class 5 or Organizational ID-Cert Class 9, or separately and the applicant is an existing Subscriber of Organizational ID-Cert Class 5 or Organizational ID-Cert Class 9, then this Subscriber Application for Encipherment ID-Cert Class 3 will be administered by the appointed Authorized Representative whose duties mainly include the submission of application, the receipt of secure packet in person and the delivery of secure packet to the corresponding Authorized User.

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