Act 2
Computer Misuse Act
2011
“information system” means a system for generating, sending, receiving, storing,
displaying or otherwise processing data messages; and includes the internet or
any other information sharing system;
“information system services” includes a provision of connections, operation
facilities, for information systems, the provision of access to information
systems, the transmission or routing of data messages between or among points
specified by a user and the processing and storage of data, at the individual
request of the recipient of the service;
“intercept”, in relation to a function of a computer, includes listening to or recording a
function of a computer or acquiring the substance, meaning or purport of such
a function;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information and communications
technology;
“person” includes any company or association or body of persons corporate or
unincorporate;
“program” or “computer program” means data representing instructions or statements
that, when executed in a computer, causes the computer to perform a function;
“traffic data” means any computer data relating to communication by means of a
computer system generated by a computer system that formed a part in the
chain of communication, indicating the communication’s origin, destination,
route, time, date, size, duration or type of underlying service.
PART II—GENERAL PROVISIONS.
3.
Securing access.
A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if that person—
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