“damage” means, except for the purposes of section 13, any impairment
to a computer or the integrity or availability of data, a program or system,
or information, that —
(a)
causes loss aggregating at least $10,000 in value, or such other amount
as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe except that
any loss incurred or accrued more than one year after the date of the
offence in question shall not be taken into account;
(b)
modifies or impairs, or potentially modifies or impairs, the medical
examination, diagnosis, treatment or care of one or more persons;
(c)
causes or threatens physical injury or death to any person; or
(d)
threatens public health or public safety;
“data” means representations of information or of concepts that are
being prepared or have been prepared in a form suitable for use in a
computer;
“electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device” means any
device or apparatus that is used or is capable of being used to intercept
any function of a computer;
“function” includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and
retrieval and communication or telecommunication to, from or within a
computer;
“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 thereof;
“program or computer program” means data representing instructions or
statements that, when executed in a computer, causes the computer to
perform a function.
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(2) For the purposes of this Act, a person secures access to any
program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform
any function he —
(a)
alters or erases the program or data;
(b)
copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is
held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held;
(c)
uses it; or
(d)