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“intercept” means the aural or other acquisition of the contents of any
electronic, magnetic, optical or oral data communication during
transmission, through the use of any device;
“interfere” or “interference” includes —
(a) an action carried out by a person who is not himself or herself
entitled to determine whether the interference of the kind in
question should be made; or
(b) an action carried out by a person whose act causes the interference
does not have consent, from any person who is so entitled, to the
interference of the kind in question; and
(c) where the act in question, or any intended effect of it, is temporary
or permanent;
“national emergency organisations” include the police service, security
forces, fire brigade, ambulance services, medical services,
veterinary services and environmental disaster agencies, whether
or not such organisations are owned and managed on a private or
public basis;
“programme” means an instruction or a set of instructions, expressed
in words, codes, schemes or any other form, which is capable,
when incorporated in a machine-readable medium, of causing a
computer or computer system to achieve a particular task, result
or function;
“property” means money or any other movable, immovable, corporeal
or incorporeal thing, whether located in Botswana or elsewhere,
and includes any rights, securities and any interest in privileges
and claims over that thing, as well as —
(a) any currency, whether or not the currency is legal tender in
Botswana, and any bill, security, bond, negotiable instrument or
any instrument capable of being negotiated which is payable to
the bearer or endorsed “payable to the bearer”, whether expressed
in Botswana currency or otherwise;
(b) any balance held in Botswana currency or in any other currency
in accounts with any bank which carries on business in Botswana
or elsewhere;
(c) any balance held in any currency with a bank outside Botswana;
(d) any motor vehicle, ship, aircraft, boat, work of art, jewelry, precious
metal or any other item of value;
(e) any right or interest in property;
(f) any funds or other assets, including all property and any interest,
dividend or income on or value accruing to or generated by such
funds or assets; and
(g) any information, including an electronically produced programme
or data or copy thereof, whether tangible or intangible, human or
computer-readable data, or data in transit;