Section 28: Interpretation

In this Act —
"audio-visual communication" means being able to see, hear and communicate with another individual in real time, using electronic means;
"Court" means the High Court of the State;
"digital signature" means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed and adopted by a person with the intent to sign the electronic document or record;
"dynamic knowledge-based authentication assessment" means an identity assessment that is based on a set of questions formulated from public or proprietary data sources for which the principal has not provided a prior answer;
"electronic" means anything relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities;
"electronic document" means information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means;
"electronic notarial act" means an official act by a Notary Public on or involving an electronic document and using electronic means authorised by the laws of the jurisdiction of appointment;
"electronic notarial certificate" means the portion of a notarised electronic document that is completed by the Notary Public, bears the Notary Public’s electronic signature and official seal, official title, any information concerning the date and place of the electronic notarisation, and states the facts attested to or certified by the Notary Public;
"electronically enabled Notary Public" means a Notary Public who has registered with the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, his capabilities of performing electronic notarial acts in conformance with the standards outlined in this Act;
"Notary Public" means an individual commissioned or appointed to perform notarial act by the Chief Justice of Nigeria;
"notary electronic signature" means those forms of electronic signatures which have been approved by the Chief Registrar as an acceptable means for a Notary Public to affix the Notary Public's official signature to an electronic record being notarised;
"real time" means the actual span of interrupted, simultaneous communication during which all parts of an electronic notarial act occur; and
"register" means physical and electronic register.