Act 2
Computer Misuse Act
2011
“access” means gaining entry to any electronic system or data held
in an electronic system or causing the electronic system to
perform any function to achieve that objective;
“application” means a set of instructions that, when executed in
a computer system, causes a computer system to perform a
function and includes such a set of instructions held in any
removable storage medium which is for the time being in a
computer system;
“authorised officer” has the meaning assigned to it in section 28;
“child” means a person under the age of eighteen years;
“computer” means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical
or other data processing device or a group of such
interconnected or related devices, performing logical,
arithmetic or storage functions; and includes any data storage
facility or communications facility directly related to or
operating in conjunction with such a device or group of such
interconnected or related devices;
“computer output” or “output” means a statement, information
or representation, whether in written, printed, pictorial,
graphical or other form—
(a) produced by a computer; or
(b) accurately translated from a statement
representation so produced from a computer;
or
“computer service” includes computer time, data processing and
the storage retrieval of data;
“content” includes components of computer hardware and
software;
“currency point” means the value of a currency point specified
in the Schedule;
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