"electronic, acoustic, mechanical or other device" means any device or apparatus that is
used or capable of being used to intercept any function of a computer;
"function" includes logic, control, arithmetic, deletion, storage and retrieval, and
communication or telecommunication to, from or within a computer;
"intercept" includes, in relation to a function of a computer, listening to or recording a
function of a computer, or acquiring the substance, meaning or purport thereof;
Minister means the minister in charge of telecommunications;
"program or computer program" means a set of instructions or statements and related data
which, when executed in actual or modified form, cause a computer, computer system, or
computer network to perform specified functions.
(2)
For the purposes of this Act, access of any kind by any person to any program or
data held in a computer is unauthorised or done without authority if (a) he is not himself entitled to control access of the kind in question to the
program or data; and
(b) he does not have consent to access the kind of program or data in
question from the person who is entitled to control access.
(3)
A reference in this Act to a program or data held in a computer includes a
reference to any program or data held in any removable storage medium which is for the
time being in the computer; and a computer is to be regarded as containing any program
or data held in any such medium.
(4)
A reference in this Act to a program includes a reference to part of a program.
(5)
For the purposes of this Act (a) a program or data held in a computer or in any storage medium capable of
being accessed and printed into readable form through a computer is a
document; and
(b) it is immaterial that access to a program or data held in a computer is
achieved through the use of that or any other computer or by any other
means.
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