liable to imprisonment for a period of three years.
(b) A person who transfers software program to another, or who
infiltrates another's computer with, a software program that is capable of
causing damage or disruption as aforesaid in Subsection (a), in order to
unlawfully cause the aforesaid damage or disruption, shall be liable to
imprisonment for a period of five years.
Chapter Three: Torts
Civil wrongs
7. An act among those specified below is a civil wrong under the Civil Torts
Ordinance [New Version], and the provisions of that Ordinance shall apply
to it –
(1) Unlawful disruption of the use of a computer or of computer
material, in any manner whatsoever, including by unlawfully taking
a thing that embodies computer material;
(2) Deletion of computer material, causing a change in it or disrupting it
in any other manner, where done unlawfully.
Burden of proof
8. In a lawsuit filed under this Chapter, the defendant shall bear the burden
of proving that the action was done lawfully.
Compensation
9. No compensation shall be granted in a lawsuit under this Chapter, unless
it was proven that the damage was caused as a result of the negligence of the
defendant.
Chapter Four: Legislative Amendments
Clause A: Laws of Evidence
Amendment to
the Evidence
Ordinance –
No. 11
10. In Chapter Two of the Evidence Ordinance [New Version], 5731 – 1971,
(1) In Article Five –
(a) In the Article's headline, “institutional record” shall replace
“bank records”;
(b) Sections 35 and 36 shall be replaced by the following:
“Definitions
35. In this article –
"legal proceeding" - any civil or criminal proceeding in Court,
in which evidence may be presented;
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