PART I - PRELIMINARY ENACTED by the Parliament of Mauritius, as follows 1. Short title The Act may be cited as the Data Protection Act 2004. 2. Interpretation In this Act “adverse action”, in relation to a data subject, means any action that may adversely affect the person’s rights, benefits, privileges, obligations or interests; “authorised officer” means an officer to whom the Commissioner has delegated his powers under section 9; “blocking”, in relation to personal data, means suspending the modification of data, or suspending or restricting the provision of information to a third party where such provision is suspended or restricted in accordance with this Act; “collect” does not include receipt of unsolicited information; “Commissioner” means the Data Protection Commissioner referred to in section 4; “computer” means any device for storing and processing information, whether or not the information is derived from other information by calculation, comparison or otherwise; Added by [Act No. 1 of 2009] “consent” means any freely given specific and informed indication of the wishes of the data subject by which he signifies his agreement to personal data relating to him being processed; "data" means information in a form which -