Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
Act 772
believe that an offence under this Act has been or is about to be committed.
Law enforcement officer and third party assistance
99. (1) A law enforcement officer executing a warrant may be accompanied by an authorised person and is entitled, with the assistance of that
person, to
(a) have access to and inspect and check the operation of any
computer to which this section applies;
(b) use or cause the computer to be used to search any programme
or electronic record held in or available to the computer;
(c) have access to information, any code or technology which
has the capability of retransforming or unscrambling an encrypted programme or electronic record held in or available
to the computer into readable and comprehensible format
or text to investigate an offence under this Act or any other
offence which has been disclosed in the course of the lawful
exercise of the powers under sections 98 to 106; and
(d) make and take away a copy of any programme or electronic
record held in the computer as specified in the search warrant
and any other programme or electronic record held in that or
any other computer which the law enforcement officer has
reasonable grounds to believe is evidence of the commission
of another offence.
(2) A law enforcement officer executing a warrant under this Act
is entitled to require
(a) the person by whom or on whose behalf, the police officer
has reasonable grounds to suspect, to produce a computer
which is or has been used, or
(b) any person in charge of, or otherwise concerned with the
operation of the computer,
to provide the officer or any authorised person with the reasonable technical
and other assistance required for investigation or prosecution.
(3) A law enforcement officer executing a warrant under this Act
is entitled to require a person in possession of decryption information to
grant the law enforcement officer access to the decryption information
necessary to decrypt an electronic record required to investigate an offence.
Preservation of evidence
100. (1) A provider of wire or electronic communication services or
a remote computing service on the written request of a law enforcement
agency, shall take the necessary steps to preserve records and other
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