Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
transmission from a subscriber or customer of the
service; and
(ii) solely for the purpose of providing storage or computer processing services to the subscriber or customer,
if the provider is not authorised to access the contents of the communications to provide any service other than storage or computer processing.
(2) A person or entity may divulge the contents of a communication
(a) to an addressee or intended recipient of the communication
or an agent of the addressee or intended recipient;
(b) as otherwise authorised by law;
(c) with the lawful consent of the originator, an addressee, intended recipient of the communication, or the subscriber in
the case of remote computing service;
(d) to a person employed, authorised or whose facilities are used
to forward the communication to its destination;
(e) as may be necessarily incident to the provision of the service
or to the protection of the rights or property of the provider
of that service; or
(f) to a law enforcement agency if the contents were inadvertently and unintentionally obtained by the service provider
and appear to relate to the commission of a crime.
Savings
97. Sections 89 to 96 do not affect
(a) an obligation founded on an agreement,
(b) the obligation of a service provider acting as in that capacity
under a licensing or other regulatory regime established by
or under any law, and
(c) an obligation imposed by law or by a Court order to remove,
block or deny access to an electronic record.
Cyber inspectors
Powers of law enforcement officers
98. (1) This provision is in addition to the powers of arrest, search and
seizure of a law enforcement agency provided by law.
(2) A law enforcement agent may seize any computer, electronic
record, program, information, document, or thing in executing a warrant
under this Act if the law enforcement officer has reasonable grounds to
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