No.14
Cybercrimes
2015
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or rendered inaccessible following a search or a
seizure, the law enforcement officer shall, at the time of
the search or as soon as practicable after the search(a) prepare a list of items seized or rendered
inaccessible and time of seizure; and
(b) issue a copy of that list to the person having
control of the computer system.
(4) A person having custody or control of the
computer system may request from a law enforcement
officer a permission to access or copy computer data on
the system after seizure.
(5) Without prejudice to subsection (4), the law
enforcement officer may refuse to give access or provide a
copy of the information if he has reasonable grounds to
believe that giving the access or providing the copy(a) would constitute an offence; or
(b) would prejudice (i)
investigation in connection with the
search;
(ii)
another ongoing investigation; or
(iii)
any criminal proceedings that are
pending or that may be instituted in
relation to any investigation.
(6)
In this section “premise” includes land,
buildings, vessel or aircraft.
Disclosure
of data
32.-(1) Where the disclosure of data is required for
the purposes of a criminal investigation or the prosecution
of an offence, a police officer in charge of a police station
or a law enforcement officer of a similar rank may issue an
order to any person in possession of such data compelling
him to disclose such data