(iv) "Authority" means the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority established under the
Pakistan Telecommunication (Reorganization) Act, 1996 (XVII of 1996);
(v) "authorization" means authorization by law or by the person empowered to make such
authorization under the law:
Provided that where an information system or data is available for open access by the
general public, access to or transmission of such information system or data shall be
deemed to be authorized for the purposes of this Act;
(vi) "authorized officer" means an officer of the investigation agency authorized to perform
any function on behalf of the investigation agency by or under this Act;
(vii) "Code" means the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898);
(viii) "content data" means any representation of fact, information or concept for processing
in an information system including source code or a program suitable to cause an
information system to perform a function;
(ix) "Court" means the Court of competent jurisdiction designated under this Act;
(x) "critical infrastructure" means critical elements of infrastructure namely assets, facilities,
systems, networks or processes the loss or compromise of which could result in,—
(a) major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services
including those services, whose integrity, if compromised, could result in significant
loss of life or casualties, taking into account significant economic or social impacts;
or
(b) significant impact on national security, national defense, or the functioning of the
state:
Provided that the Government may designate any private or Government
infrastructure in accordance with the objectives of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) above,
as critical infrastructure as may be prescribed under this Act;
(xi) "critical infrastructure information system or data" means an information system,
program or data that supports or performs a function with respect to a critical
infrastructure;
(xii) "damage to an information system" means any unauthorized change in the ordinary
working of an information system that impairs its performance, access, output or change
in location whether temporary or permanent and with or without causing any change in
the system;
(xiii) “data” includes content data and traffic data;
(xiv) "data damage" means alteration, deletion, deterioration, erasure, relocation, suppression
of data or making data temporarily or permanently unavailable;
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