Summary of the Provisions of the Model Law \ 3 Summary of the Provisions of the Model Law The Model Law is in three Parts. Part I contains in section 3 the important definitions of ‘computer data’, ‘computer system’, ‘service provider’ and ‘traffic data’ together with an additional definition of ‘computer data storage medium’. Section 4 of the Model Law deals with the jurisdiction of the enacting state. Part II of the Model Law (sections 5-10) is concerned with substantive criminal law and the creation of offences. The offences relate to illegal access, interfering with data, interfering with a computer system, the illegal interception of data, illegal devices and child pornography using a computer system or a computer data storage medium. The Model Law does not cover computer-related forgery or fraud. Part III of the Model Law (sections 11 to 21) deals with ‘procedural law’. It contains provisions as to search and seizure warrants, the obligation to assist the police, recording and access to seized data, the production of data, the disclosure of stored traffic data, the preservation of data, the interception of electronic communications and the interception of traffic data, with provisions as to evidence, confidentiality and the limitation of liability together with the necessary definitions.

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