Act 9
Penal Code Act
2008
(b) processing data according to rules or instructions;
(c) storing and additionally, or alternatively,
reproducing data before or after processing the
data;
and includes—
(i) the devices or apparatus or series of devices
commonly known as automatic telling
machines, electronic cash registers and
point-of-sale tills; and
(ii) any other device or apparatus used for the
electronic processing of monetary
transactions;
“computer virus” means any set of computer instructions
that are, or any data, programme or system that is designed
directly or indirectly to—
(a) destroy or alter;
(b) render meaningless, useless or ineffective; or
(c) obstruct, intercept, divert, interrupt or interfere with
the use of; any computer or computer network;
“computer network” means the interconnection of one or
more computers through—
(a) the use of satellite, microwave, terrestrial line or
other communication media; or
(b) computer terminals, or a complex consisting of two
or more interconnected computers, whether or not
the interconnection is continuously maintained;
“credit or debit card” means a card, disc, plate or token
which, directly or indirectly, causes a computer to function;
“data” means representations of information or concepts
that are being prepared or have been prepared for storage or
use in a computer;
“function” includes an operation or exercise of logic,
control, arithmetic, deletion, storage, retrieval and
communication within, to or from a system;
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