CAP. 124B
Computer Misuse
L.R.O. 2005 10
s.12
(b) gains access to a restricted computer system in the course of
the commission of an offence under section 4, 5, 6 or 7, the
person convicted of that offence is, in lieu of the penalty
prescribed in those sections, liable, on conviction on indictment, to a fine of $100 000 or to imprisonment for a term of
7 years or to both.
(2) It is a defence to a charge brought under subsection (1) to prove
that access to a restricted computer system was obtained inadvertently
and with no intent to commit an offence.
Schedule.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a "restricted computer
system" means any system or part of a system belonging to the entities
set out in the Schedule, that is not available for access to the public
and in respect of which notice of the restriction is given
(a) in the Official Gazette and in a newspaper published daily in
Barbados; and
(b) on a computer at the time when the attempt is made to gain
access to the system.
Schedule.
Unauthorised
receiving or
giving of
access to
computer
programme
or data.
(4) The Minister may by order amend the Schedule by adding to
or deleting from the list of entities set out in the Schedule.
12. (1) Where a person who is not authorised
(a) to have a programme or computer data; or
(b) to have access to any programme or data held in a computer
receives or is given access to that programme or data, he is guilty of an
offence whether or not the person from whom the programme or data
was received or through whom access was attained was authorised to
make it available to him.