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Chapter Two
Information system, media and network offences
Accessing sites and information systems owned by others
4.
Anyone who accesses a site or information system without being authorized to do so and:
(a) consults or copies it, shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or a
fine or both penalties;
(b) cancels data or information belonging to another person or deletes, destroys, discloses,
damages, alters or republishes it or who changes the design or location of the site or cancels or
diverts its address shall be punishable by imprisonment for a period not exceeding four years or
a fine or both penalties.
Access of sites and information systems by a public official
5.
Any public employee who without authorization accesses a site or information system of the
authority in which he works or who facilitates another person’s doing so shall be punishable by a
prison sentence not exceeding five years or a fine or both penalties.
Tapping, interception or capture of messages
6.
Any person who taps, captures or intercepts any message through an information network or
computer hardware or similar without permission from the public prosecutor or the competent
authority or the party to which the information belongs shall be liable to a term of imprisonment not
exceeding three years or a fine or both penalties.
The offence of accessing sites deliberately in order to obtain secure data or information
7.
Any person who deliberately accesses a site or system directly or through an information network or
similar for the purpose of:
(a) obtaining data or information affecting the national security of the country or the national
economy shall be liable to a prison sentence not exceeding seven years or a fine or both
penalties;
(b) cancels, deletes, destroys or alters information affecting the national security of the country or
the national economy shall be liable to a prison sentence not exceeding ten years or a fine or
both penalties.
Shutting down, disabling or destroying software, data or information
8.
Any person who accesses by any means whatsoever an information system, medium, network or
similar and deliberately shuts it down or disables it or destroys, erases, deletes or damages software,
data or information shall be liable to a prison sentence not exceeding six years or a fine or both
penalties.
Obstruction of, interference with, or disabling access to the service
9.
Any person who intentionally obstructs, interferes with or disables by any means whatsoever access
to the service or access to hardware, software or sources of data or information through an