Law 18.237 of 26 December 2007 authorizes the use of the electronic assets, electronic document, and electronic signature in the judicial and administrative procedures with the same legal value of its conventional equivalence.

The Electronic Transactions Act provides for the use of electronic transactions and gives legal recognition to electronic signatures.

The Saudi Arabia Electronic Transactions Act 2007 establishes a legal regime for electronic transactions and digital signatures. It consolidates the use of electronic transactions in the public and private sectors, at local and international levels and advocates their use in commerce and e-government.

The purpose of this Act is to facilitate the use of electronic signatures, through provisions regarding secure signature creation devices, qualified certificates for electronic signatures, and the issuance of these certificates.

The Act for the Recognition of the Communications and Electronic Signatures applies to any kind of electronic communication, be it public or private, national or international. The Act strengthens the legal framework for electronic commerce by providing legal certainty to the transmission of messages and agreements by electronic means and legal recognition to the electronic signatures.

This Law recognizes the legal status of electronic signatures and electronic data, regardless of their material and attributable to natural or legal persons. It also regulates all matters relating to the certification service providers and electronic certificates.

The Law no. 5070 on electronic signatures was enacted in 2004. The purpose of this law is to define the principles for the legal and technical aspects and application of electronic signatures. The law covers the legal status of electronic signatures, operations concerning electronic signatures and the activities of Electronic Certificate Service Providers (ECSPs). This establishes that qualified electronic signatures produced according to the identified procedures have the same legal impact with that of handwritten signatures.

The purpose of this Law is to promote the diffusion of information using electromagneticelectronic methods and information processing through securing the smooth utilization of electronic signatures, and thereby to contribute to the improvement of the citizen's quality of life of the people and the sound development of the national economy, by the presumption of the genuine establishmentauthenticity of electromagnetic records, the provisions for voluntary accreditation with regard to designated of certification services and the prescription of other necessary matters concerning electronic s

The Electronic Commerce Act transposed into Maltese law the EU Directive 1999/93/EC on a Community framework for electronic signatures. It provides the legal basis for the introduction of electronic signatures in eGovernment applications.

The scope of the act is that of allowing the free flow of electronic signature products and services while ensuring a basic legal recognition of electronic signatures. It thus establishes the regulatory framework for the provision of signature certification and intermediary services.

The Law on Electronic Signature regulates the creation, verification, and validity of electronic signature, signature users’ rights and obligations, establishes the certification services and requirements of their providers and the rights and functions of the institution of electronic signature supervision.

Canadian law distinguishes between the generic electronic signature and the secure electronic signature. The Secure Electronic Signature Regulations makes it clear that a secure electronic signature is a digital signature created and verified in a specific manner in compliance with the regulations.

This Act governs the right of natural and legal persons to use electronic signatures in administrative, commercial and other operations, and the rights, obligations and responsibilities of natural and legal persons associated with the providing of services to certify electronic signatures.

This Act provides for legal recognition of electronic messages in commercial transactions, the use of the electronic messages to fulfill legal requirements and to enable and facilitate commercial transactions through the use of electronic means and other matters connected therewith.

This Decree provides in detail for digital signatures and digital certificates; the management, provision and use of digital signature-certification services.

This law establishes the legal effect of electronic signature and protects lawful interests of parties involved by standardizing the behavior of electronic signers.

It defines electronic signature as the content data, in the form of electronic message, contained in and attached to a data message, to identify the signer and indicate that the signer accepts the content data.

The so called data message in the law means message created, sent, received or stored in the forms of electronic, optical, magnetic and similar methods.