Computer Misuse Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Offences
4. Access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of offence
Feedback & supportAny person who causes a computer to perform any function for the purpose of securing access to any program or data held in any computer with intent to commit an offence to which this section applies shall be guilty of an offence.
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“computer” means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other data processing device, or a group of such interconnected or related devices, performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, and includes any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with such device or group of such interconnected or related devices, but does not include —(a)an automated typewriter or typesetter;(b)a portable hand-held calculator;(c)a similar device which is non-programmable or which does not contain any data storage facility; or(d)such other device as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe;
This section applies to an offence involving property, fraud, dishonesty or which causes bodily harm and which is punishable on conviction with imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 years.
Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.
For the purposes of this section, it is immaterial whether —
the access mentioned in subsection (1) is authorised or unauthorised;
the offence to which this section applies is committed at the same time when the access is secured or at any other time.