LAWS OF BRUNEI
CAP. 194]
Computer Misuse
[2007 Ed.
p. 15
(i) the person by who or on whose behalf the police
officer or investigation officer has reasonable cause to
suspect any computer to which this section applies is
or has been used; or
(ii) any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned
with the operation of, such computer,
to provide him with such reasonable technical and other assistance as
he may require for the purposes of paragraph (a); or
(c) be entitled to require any person in possession of decryption
information to grant him access to such decryption information
necessary to decrypt data required for the purpose of investigating
any such offence.
(2) This section applies to a computer which a police officer or any
person authorised in writing by the Commissioner of Police has reasonable
cause to suspect is or has been in use in connection with any offence under
this Act or any other offence which has been disclosed in the course of the
lawful exercise of the powers under this section.
(3) The powers referred to in subsections (1)(a) (ii) and (iii) and in
subsection (1)(c) shall not be exercised except with the consent of the Public
Prosecutor.
(4) Any person who obstructs the lawful exercise of the powers
under subsection (1)(a) or who fails to comply with a request under
subsections (1)(b) or (c) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a
fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years
or both.
(5) For the purposes of this section —
“decryption information” means information or technology that
enables a person to readily retransform or unscramble encrypted
data from its unreadable and incomprehensible format to its plain
text version;
“encrypted data” means data which has been transformed or
scrambled from its plain text version to an unreadable or
incomprehensible format, regardless of the technique utilised for
such transformation or scrambling and irrespective of the
medium in which such data occurs or can be found for the
purposes of protecting the content of such data;
B.L.R.O. 3/2007