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POWERS TO INVESTIGATE, SEARCH AND ACCESS OR SEIZE AND
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Definitions and interpretation
26.
For purposes of this Chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise—
"access" means to make use of, to gain entry to, to view, display, to retrieve, to copy
data, or otherwise make use of a computer device, a computer network, a database, a
critical database, an electronic communications network or a National Critical
Information Infrastructure or their accessories or components or any part thereof;
"article" means any data, a computer device, a computer network, a database, a critical
database, an electronic communications network or a National Critical Information
Infrastructure or any part thereof or any other information, instrument, device or
equipment which—
(a)
is concerned in, connected with or is, on reasonable grounds, believed to be
concerned in or connected with the commission or suspected commission;
(b)
may afford evidence of the commission or suspected commission; or
(c)
is intended to be used or is, on reasonable grounds, believed to be intended to
be used in the commission,
of an offence in terms of this Act or any other offence which may be committed by
means of or facilitated through, the use of an article, whether within the Republic or
elsewhere;
"investigator" means an appropriately qualified, fit and proper person, who is not a
member of a law enforcement agency, and who is appointed by the National
Commissioner or the Director-General: State Security, on the strength of his or her
expertise in order to, subject to the control and directions of a member of a law
enforcement agency, assist a law enforcement agency in an investigation in terms of
this Act;