PART 4
PROCEDURES
PART 4
PROCEDURES
Division L_
Disclosure of information, assistance and production of
computer data
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(1)
Disclosure of information of an investigation
For the purposes of this section, a service provider includes all or any
employee, agent and contractor of the service provider.
(2)
A service provider who receives an order from a Court, relating toa
criminal investigation that provides that confidentiality is to be maintained
or such obligation is stated by law and the service provider discloses or
continues to disclose:
(a)
the fact that an order has been made; or
(b)
anything done under the order; or
(©)
any data collected or recorded under the order,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction:
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in the case of an individual-to a fine not exceeding
VT2,000,000, or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 5
years, or both; or
in the case of a body corporate- to a fine not exceeding
VT5,000,000.
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Assistance
A person who is not a suspect of a crime under this Act, but is in possession or
coutrol of a device or data that is subject to a computer warrant under Division 6,
must, at his or her own cost, permit or assist an authorised officer when carrying
out the search:
{a}
to access and use the device or data; and
(b) _ to obtaina
copy of that data; and
(c)
to use the device to make. copies; and
(d)
to obtain an intelligible output from a device in a format that can be read.
Cybercrime Act No. 22 of 2021
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