Act 2
Computer Misuse Act
2011
“information system” means a system for generating, sending,
receiving, storing, displaying or otherwise processing data
messages; and includes the internet or any other
information sharing system;
“information system services” includes a provision of
connections, operation facilities, for information systems,
the provision of access to information systems, the
transmission or routing of data messages between or among
points specified by a user and the processing and storage of
data, at the individual request of the recipient of the service;
“intercept”, in relation to a function of a computer, includes
listening to or recording a function of a computer or acquiring
the substance, meaning or purport of such a function;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information and
communications technology;
“person” includes any company or association or body of
persons corporate or unincorporate;
“program” or “computer program” means data representing
instructions or statements that, when executed in a
computer, causes the computer to perform a function;
“traffic data” means any computer data relating to
communication by means of a computer system generated
by a computer system that formed a part in the chain of
communication, indicating the communication’s origin,
destination, route, time, date, size, duration or type of
underlying service.
PART II—GENERAL PROVISIONS.
3. Securing access.
A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if
that person—
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