(f) any computer, computer network, information communications network data, programme
or system involved is owned by the State, a law enforcement agency, the Defence Forces,
the Prison Service, a statutory corporation or a local authority;
(g) the offence results in considerable material prejudice or economic loss to the owner of the
computer, computer network, data, programme or system;
(h) the offence seriously interferes with or disrupts an essential service; or
(i) the offence was committed in furtherance of organised crime or the perpetrator was part
of organised criminal gang.
PART IV
OFFENCES RELATING TO ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND MATERIALS
14 Transmission of data message inciting violence or damage to property
Any person who unlawfully by means of a computer or information system makes available,
transmits, broadcasts or distributes a data message to any person, group of persons or to the public
with intend to incite such persons to commit acts of violence against any person or persons or to
cause damage to any property shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level
ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such fine and such
imprisonment.
15 Sending threatening data message
Any person who unlawfully and intentionally by means of a computer or information system
sends any data message to another person threatening harm to the person or the person’s family or
friends or damage to the property of such persons shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine
not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years or to both such
fine and such imprisonment.
16 Cyber-bullying and harassment
Any person who unlawfully and intentionally by means of a computer or information system
generates and sends any data message to another person, or posts on any material whatsoever on
any electronic medium accessible by any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass,
threaten, bully or cause substantial emotional distress, or to degrade, humiliate or demean the
person of another or to encourage a person to harm himself or herself, shall be guilty of an offence
and liable to a fine not exceeding level ten or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years
or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
17 Transmission of false data message intending to cause harm
Any person who unlawfully and intentionally by means of a computer or information system
makes available, broadcasts or distributes data to any other person concerning an identified or
identifiable person knowing it to be false with intend to cause psychological or economic harm
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