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No. 2 of 2021]
Act No. 15
of 2009
Act No. 4 of
2021
Cap. 1
Act No. 4
of 2021
Cyber Security and Cyber
Crimes
(a) is concerned with, connected with or is, on reasonable
grounds, believed to be concerned with or connected
with the commission of a crime or suspected
commission of a crime;
(b) may afford evidence of the commission or suspected
commission of a crime; and
(c) is intended to be used or is, on reasonable grounds,
believed to be intended to be used in the commission
of a crime;
“Authority” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Information and Communications Technologies Act, 2009;
“cache” means the storing of data in a transmission system in
order to speed up data transmission or processing”;
“caching” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2021;
“child” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Constitution;
“child pornography” means pornography in audio, visual, text
or other digital format that depicts or represents a child
engaged in sexually explicit conduct;
“child solicitation” means persuading, luring, or attempting to
persuade or lure a child into sexual activity through the use
of a computer system or device, regardless of the outcome;
“computer” has the meaning assigned to the word in the
Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2021;
“computer data” means a representation of facts, concepts
or information in a form suitable for processing in a
computer system, including a program suitable to cause a
computer system to perform a function;
“computer data storage medium” means an apparatus or
object from which electronic information is capable of being
reproduced, with or without the aid of an article or device;
“computer system” means a set of integrated devices that
input, output, process, and store data and information
including internet;
“controller” means a person, either alone or in common with
other persons, who controls and is responsible for critical
information infrastructure;
“Council” means the National Cyber Security Advisory and
Coordinating Council constituted under section 7;