Section 3 CAP. 10.06
(d)
Computer Crimes Act
such other device as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette,
prescribe;
“computer data” means any representation of facts, information or concepts
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 such as a
disk, from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without
the aid of any other article or device;
“computer system” means a device or a group of inter-connected or related
devices, including the Internet, one or more of which, pursuant to a program,
performs automatic processing of data or any other function;
“hinder”, in relation to a computer system, means —
(a)
(b)
cutting the electricity supply to a computer system;
causing electromagnetic interference to a computer system;
(c)
(d)
corrupting a computer system by any means; and
inputting, deleting or altering computer data;
“seize” includes —
(a) make and retain a copy of computer data, including using on site
equipment;
(b) render inaccessible, or remove, a computer or computer data in the
accessed computer system; and
(c)
take a printout of computer data;
“service provider” means a public or private entity that provides to users of
its services the ability to communicate by means of a computer system, and
any other entity that processes or stores computer data on behalf of that entity
or those users; and
“traffic data” means computer data that relates to a communication by means
of a computer system; and is generated by a computer system that is part of
the chain of communication, and shows the communication’s origin,
destination, route, time, date, size, duration or the type of underlying services.
3
Jurisdiction
(1)
This Act shall apply to any person who commits an offence under this Act.
(2)
Where an offence under this Act is committed by any person who is outside
the Kingdom, he shall be deemed to have committed the offence within the
Kingdom.
(3)
For the purposes of this section, this Act shall apply as if, for the offence in
question —
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