The purpose of the Regulations is to operationalize the Electronic Signatures Act (ESA). The Regulations provide further detail to the Electronic Signatures Act (ESA) with regard to licensing and recognition of Certification Service Providers (CSPs); providers of Repository Services and Date and Time Stamp Services.

The purpose of these Regulations is to operationalize the Electronic Transactions Act (ETA). The Regulations provide further detail to the ETA with regard to authentication of data messages;

The objectives of these Regulations are—

(a) to promote e-government services and electronic communications and transactions with public and private bodies, institutions and citizens;

(b) to promote the use of the internet to provide increased opportunities for citizen participation in Government;

(c) to promote interagency collaboration in providing public services by consolidating, rationalizing and integrating related functions and using internal e-Government processes to improve the service to citizens, efficiency and effectiveness of the processes;