S4 1. (1) This Act shall be cited as the Computer Crime and Cybercrime Act, 2022. (2) This Act shall come into operation on the date of publication in the Government Gazette. Interpretation 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires – “abetting” means to encourage or assist someone to commit a crime or other offence; “access” in relation to section 3 means logging into a computer system; “access provider” means any person, natural or juristic, providing an electronic data transmission service by transmitting information provided by or to a user of the service in a communication network or providing access to a communication network; “caching provider” means any person natural or juristic providing an electronic data transmission service by automatic, intermediate and temporary storing information, performed for the sole purpose of making more efficient the information’s onward transmission to other users of the service upon their request; “child” means a person under the age of eighteen (18) years; “child pornography” means any material that depicts, presents or represents; (a) a child engaged in sexual conduct, or in the nude without a justifiable cause; or (b) images representing a child engaged in sexual conduct; which includes, but is not limited to, any audio, visual or text pornographic material. “Commission” means the Eswatini Communications Commission established under the Eswatini Communications Commission Act, 2013; “computer system” or “information system” means a device or a group of inter-connected or related devices, one or more of which, pursuant to a program, performs automatic processing of data or any other function; “computer data” means any representation of facts, concepts, information (being either texts, audio, video or images) machine-readable code or instructions, in a form suitable for processing in a computer system, including a program suitable to cause a computer system to perform a function; “computer data storage medium” means any article or material from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without the aid of any other article or device; “Court” means a Magistrate Court or the High Court; “critical infrastructure” means computer systems, devices, networks, computer programs, computer data, vital to the country that the incapacity or destruction of or interference with such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on, national or economic security,

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