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Short title and date of commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Cyber-crime and Cyber-security Act, 2017.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by notice in the
Gazette.
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Objects of Act
The objects of the Act are to curb cybercrime and increase cybersecurity in order to build
confidence and trust in the secure use of information and communications technologies.
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Interpretation
(1) In this Act—
“access provider” means any person providing—
(a) an electronic data transmission service by transmitting information provided by, or
to, a user of the service in a communication network; or
(b) access to a communication network;
“caching provider” means any person providing an electronic data transmission service by
automatic, intermediate or temporary storage of information performed for the sole
purpose of making the onward transmission of data to other users of the service upon their
request more efficient;
“child” means any person under the age of eighteen years;
“child pornography” means pornography involving a child;
"computer device" means any portable and non-portable electronic programmable device used
or designed, whether by itself or as part of a computer network, a database, a critical
database, an electronic communications network or critical information infrastructure or
any other device or equipment or any part thereof, to perform predetermined arithmetic,
logical, routing or storage operations in accordance with set instructions and includes—
(a)
input devices;
(b)
output devices;
(c)
processing devices;
(d)
computer data storage mediums;
(e)
programmes; and
(f)
other equipment and devices,
that are related to, connected or used with, such a device or any part thereof and “device”
shall be construed accordingly;
“computer data storage medium” means any device or location from which data is capable
of being reproduced or on which data is capable of being stored, by a computer device,
irrespective of whether the device is physically attached to or connected with the computer
device;
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