2.
Interpretation
In this Act –
“access” means gaining entry to a program or computer data stored in a
computer system;
“Budapest Convention” means the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime of
2001, acceded to by Mauritius on 1 March 2014;
“Central Authority” has the same meaning as in the Mutual Legal
Assistance in Criminal and Related Matters Act;
“CERT-MU” means the Computer Emergency Response Team of Mauritius
set up under section 38;
“Committee” means the National Cybersecurity Committee established
under section 3;
“computer data” means any representation of facts, information or
concepts in a form suitable for processing in a computer system, including
a program suitable to cause a computer system to perform a function;
“Computer Emergency Response” means to –
(a)
coordinate in the event of cyber security emergencies;
(b)
provide help in resolving security incidents;
(c)
provide information to improve cyber security;
“computer program” means a set of instructions, expressed in words,
codes, schemes or any other form, which is capable of causing a computer
to perform or achieve a particular task or result;
“computer system” means any device or a group of interconnected or
related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, performs
automatic processing of data;
“content data” –
(a)
means –
(i)
the communication content of the communication;
(ii)
the meaning or purport of the communication; or
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