Electronic
Communications
and Transactions
[ N o . 21 of 2009
97. (1) Except for the purpose of this Act or for the prosecution
of an offence or pursuant to an order of court, a person w h o has,
pursuant to any p o w e r s conferred under this Part, obtained access
to any information shall not disclose such information to any other
person.
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Prohibition
of
disclosure
of
information
to
unauthorised
persons
(2) A n y person w h o contravenes subsection (1) commits an
offence and is liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding one
hundred thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not
e x c e e d i n g one year, or to both.
PART X V
CYBER CRIME
9 8 . In this Part, " a c c e s s " includes the actions of a person w h o ,
after taking note of any data, becomes aware of the fact that the
person is not authorised to access that data and still continues to
access that data.
Definition
9 9 . (1) A person w h o intentionally accesses or intercepts any
data without authority or permission to do so or w h o exceeds t h e
authorised access, commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction
to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand penalty units or to
imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years, or to both.
Unauthorised
access to,
interception
of or
interference
with, data
(2) A person w h o intentionally and without authority to do so,
interferes with data in a way which causes such data to be modified,
destroyed or otherwise rendered ineffective, commits an offence
and is liable, upon conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred
thousand penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding
five years, or to both.
(3) A person w h o unlawfully produces, sells, offers to sell,
procures for use, designs, adapts for use, distributes or possesses
any device, including a computer program or a component, which
is d e s i g n e d p r i m a r i l y to o v e r c o m e security m e a s u r e s for t h e
protection of data, or performs any of these acts with regard to a
password, access code or any other similar kind o f data with the
intent to unlawfully utilise such item, commits an offence and is
liable, upon conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand
penalty units or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one
year, or to both.