3.2.5 The meaning of an information system in the Lesotho Bill
An Information system means a device or groups of interconnected or related devices
including the Internet, one or more which, pursuant to a program, performs automatic
processing of data or any other function.301
3.2.6 The RSA ECT Act’s meaning of an information system
The ECT Act defines an information system as a system for generating, sending,
receiving, storing, displaying or otherwise processing data messages and includes the
Internet.302
It is clear that both pieces of legislations have identical definitions of an information
system the examples of which may include the internet, and electronic devices for
information storage or processing such as a computer.
3.2.7 An addressee, originator and intermediary in the Lesotho Bill
An addressee in respect of an electronic communication means a party who is
intended by the originator to receive an electronic communication, but does not include
a party acting as an intermediary.303 An originator means a person by whom, or on
whose behalf, an electronic communication purports to have been sent or generated
prior to storage, if any, but does not include an intermediary.304 An intermediary means
a person who, whether as an agent or not, sends, receives or stores electronic
communication on behalf of another person or provides other services with respect to
that electronic communication.305
3.2.8 An addressee, originator and intermediary in the RSA ECT Act
An addressee means a person who is intended by the originator to receive the data
message, but not an intermediary in respect of that data message.306 An originator
means a person by whom, or on whose behalf, a data message purports to have been
301
S2 of the Bill.
S1 ECT Act; Van der Merwe (2008: 84).
303 S2 of the Bill.
304 S2 id.
305 S2 id.
306 S1 ECT Act.
302
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