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While prescribing security procedures and practices under Section 16, the Central Government is required by the proviso to have regard to which of the following?

The Central Government must have regard to commercial circumstances, the nature of transactions and other related factors it considers appropriate. The proviso to Section 16 thus makes the prescribed security procedures flexible and context-sensitive rather than tied to a single factor such as turnover or hardware cost.

  1. AOnly the cost of hardware used by the subscriber
  2. BCommercial circumstances, nature of transactions and other related factors it considers appropriateCorrect
  3. COnly the turnover of the body corporate concerned
  4. DThe views of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team alone

Explanation

The proviso to Section 16 requires regard to commercial circumstances, nature of transactions and such other related factors as the Government considers appropriate. It does not restrict the factors to hardware cost, turnover or CERT-In views.

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