“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.   [21/98] (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​)