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Interception of Communications
tothe extent only that the file or the programme
is identified by reference to the apparatus in
which it is stored, and references to traffic data
being attached to a communication include
references to the data and the communication
being logically associated with each other.
(2)
For the purposes
of this Act
“the
interests
of
national security” shall be construed as including, but not
limited to, the protection of Belize from threats of sabotage,
espionage, terrorist acts, terrorism, subversion or military
or paramilitary invasion.
(3) For the purpose of this Act
offence shall be taken to include:
“detection”
of an
(a)
establishing by whom, for what purpose,
when, by what means and generally in what
circumstances any offence may be committed;
and
(b)
the apprehension of the person by whom an
offence was committed.
PART II
INTERCEPTION OF COMMUNICATIONS
Prohibition of
interception.
3. (1) Exceptas provided in this section, any person who
with intent intercepts communication in the course of its
transmission by means of a public postal service or a
communication network without authorisation, commits an
offence and, on conviction on indictment, is liable to:
(a)
a fine of not less than twenty five thousand
dollars
and not exceeding
fifty thousand
dollars or to a term of imprisonment
not
exceeding three years in the first instance,