Computer Crime and Cybercrime Bill
A Bill for An Act to criminalize offences against computers and network related crime; to
provide for investigation and collection of evidence for computer and network related
crime; to provide for the admission of electronic evidence for such offences, and to provide
for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.
Enacted by the Parliament of Lesotho
PART I.
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Short Title and
Commencement
1.
This Act may be cited as the Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act, 2013
and shall come into operation on the date of its publication in the Gazette .
Application
2.
This Act shall apply to the Kingdom of Lesotho.
3.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires –
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Interpretation
“Access” in relation to Section. 5 means entering a computer system.
“Access provider” means any natural or legal person providing an
electronic data transmission service by transmitting information provided
by or to a user of the service in a communication network or providing
access to a communication network;
“Authority” means the Authority established under the Communications
Act No. 4 of 2012
“Caching provider” means any natural or legal person providing an
electronic data transmission service by automatic, intermediate and
temporary storing information, performed for the sole purpose of making
more efficient the information's onward transmission to other users of the