Electronic Transactions Act, 2008
commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not
more than five thousand penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of
not more than ten years or to both.
Unauthorised access to computer programme or electronic record
130. (1) A person who knowing and without authority causes a computer
to perform any function to secure access to a programme or electronic
record held in that computer or in any other computer, commits an offence
and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand
five hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than
five years or to both.
(2) For the purposes of sections 107 to 141, it is immaterial that
the act in question is not directed at
(a) a particular programme or electronic record,
(b) a programme or electronic record of any kind, or
(c) a programme or electronic record held in any particular
computer.
(3) A person secures or gains access to a programme or electronic
record held in a computer if by causing the computer to perform any function, the person
(a) alters or erases the programme or electronic record,
(b) copies or moves it to a 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) causes it to be output from the computer in which it is held,
whether by having it displayed or in any other manner,
and references to access to a programme or electronic record and to an
intent to secure the access, shall be read accordingly.
(4) A person uses a programme if the function the person causes
the computer to perform
(a) causes the programme to be executed, or
(b) is itself a function of the programme.
(5) For the purposes of this Act, the form of any programme or
electronic record is immaterial.
Unauthorised modification of computer programme or electronic record
131. (1) A person who does any direct or an indirect act without
authority which the person knows or ought to have known will cause an
unauthorised modification of any programme or electronic record held in
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