COMPUTER MISUSE ACT 1993
2020 REVISED EDITION
This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31
December 2021
An Act to make provision for securing computer material against unauthorised access or
modification and for matters related thereto.
[3/2013; 9/2018]
[30 August 1993]
PART 1
PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Act is the Computer Misuse Act 1993.
[3/2013; 9/2018]
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“computer” means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other data
processing device, or a group of such interconnected or related devices,
performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data
storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in
conjunction with such device or group of such interconnected or related
devices, but does not include —
(a) an automated typewriter or typesetter;
(b) a portable hand-held calculator;
(c) a similar device which is non-programmable or which does not
contain any data storage facility; or
(d) such other device as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette,
prescribe;
“computer output” or “output” means a statement or representation (whether in
written, printed, pictorial, graphical or other form) purporting to be a statement
or representation of fact —
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