PART 3Miscellaneous

Transitional provisions and revocations4

1

The Electronic Signatures Regulations 2002 are revoked.

2

For the purposes of these Regulations, a qualified certificate issued pursuant to regulation 2 of the 2002 Regulations is to be treated as a qualified certificate for electronic signature pursuant to Article 3(15) of the eIDAS Regulation until it expires.

Consequential amendments5

Schedule 3 has effect.

Review6

1

The Secretary of State must from time to time—

a

carry out a review of these Regulations;

b

set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

c

publish the report.

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3

The report must in particular—

a

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by these Regulations;

b

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

c

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved by a system that imposes less regulation.

4

The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force.

5

Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.