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“Appeal Tribunal” means the cyber appeal tribunal created under Section 82, information
and communication technology Act, 2006 ( Act No. 39 of year 2006);
“Data Storage” means text, image, information presented as audio or video format,
knowledge, incident, principle idea or guidelines, which
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has been or is being formally produced by means of any computer or
computer network or computer system; and
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has been prepared with the aim of using it in any computer or computer
network or computer system
“ Agency” means Digital Security Agency formed under Section 5 of this Act;
“Computer Emergency Response Team” means the National computer emergency
response team or computer emergency response team formed under Section 9;
“Computer System” means the communication process between one or more computer(s)
or digital device(s) that are capable of collecting, sending and storing data singly or by
connecting with each other;
“Council” means national digital security council formed under Section 12;
“Critical Information Infrastructure” means any physical or virtual information
infrastructure declared by the government which is capable of controlling, processing,
circulating or preserving any information, data or electronic information and which if it is
damaged or compromised may adversely affect (i) public safety or financial security or public health,
(ii) national security or national integrity or sovereignty;
“Tribunal” means cyber tribunal created under Section 68 of, information and
communication technology Act, 2006 (Act No. 39 of year 2006);
“Digital” means the working procedure based on binary system (0 or 1) or digit based
system, and to fulfill the objective of this Act, electrical, digital, magnetic, optical,
biometric, electrochemical, electromechanical, wireless or electro-magnetic technology
will be the part of it;
“ Digital Device” means any electronic, digital, magnetic, optical or information processing
device or system which by using electronic, digital, magnetic, optical or information
processing device or system, will perform logical, mathematical and memory
programming, and any digital or computer device system or computer network
connected with it or all kinds of input, output, processing, accumulating digital software
device or communication facilities will be included;
“Digital Security” means the security of any digital device or digital system;
“Digital Forensic Lab” means the digital forensic lab formed under Section 10;
“Police Officer” means a police officer who is not below the rank of sub-inspector;
“Program” means any directives expressed in the form of sound, signal, writing or in any
other form; produced with the help of a machine in a readable medium, using which any
specific activity can be executed or be made tangibly productive using digital device
“Criminal Procedure” means Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898);
“Person” means any person or institution, company, partnership business, farm or any
other organization, in case of the digital device its controller, and any entity created by
law or artificial legal entity will be included in it;
“Illegal Entrance” means entrance without the permission of any person or authority or
entrance in violation of the conditions of permission of entrance by the said person or
authority into any computer or digital device or digital network system, or by above
mentioned entrance create hindrance in the exchange of any data-information suspend or
prevent or stop the process of exchange of data-information, or change the datainformation or add or deduct the data-information or collect the data-information with
the use of a digital device