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Cybercrime
  • Acts against the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of Computer, Data and Systems

    • • Illegal data/ system interference
      • Interception of computer data
      • Breach of privacy/data protection measures
 

Original Text

Section 97

(I) Any person who operates a telecommunication offences network or provides a telecommunication service, unless under sub-section (2) of section 17, without, as the case may be-

(a) an individual licence issued or deemed to have been issued under Part III; or

(b) having registered or being deemed to have been registered under a general licence issued under Part III, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who-

(a) knowingly connects unapproved terminal equipment to a licensed network; or

(b) fails to comply with a request by a licensee to disconnect unapproved terminal equipment, shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) Any person who dishonestly obtains a telecommunication service with intent to avoid payment of any charge applicable to the provision of that service shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) Any person licensed to operate a telecommunication network or provide a telecommunication service who otherwise than in the course of his duty intentionally intercepts, interferes with the contents of, or modifies any message sent as part of a telecommunication service shall be guilty of an offence.

(5) Any person licensed to operate a telecommunication network or provide a telecommunication service who discloses, other than in his official capacity-

(a) the contents of a message sent as part of a telecommunication service; or

(b) any information, other than directory information, about any user of a telecommunication service, shall be guilty of an offence.

(6) Any person who, when required by a telecommunication operator to leave premises being used for the business of that operator, fails to comply with the requirement shall be guilty of an offence unless he has the authority to be on the premises.

 
 
 

Comment

Please note that this law is not from an official source.

Section 2 of the Communications Act - Interpretation

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"telecommunication" means the emission, transmission or reception, through the agency of electricity or electromagnetism, of any sounds, signs, signals, writing, images, intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electric or electromagnetic systems whether or not such signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence have been subjected to  rearrangement, computation or other processes by any means in the course of their  transmission, emission or reception;
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