Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Regulations
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may make regulations generally for the better carrying into effect of any provisions under this Act. (2)…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Consequential Amendments
The laws specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended, in the provisions specified in the second column thereof, in t…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Prevailing Clause
Whenever there is a conflict between this Act and any other law regarding cybercrimes, the provisions of this Act shall supersede…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Forfeiture
The court before which a person is convicted of any offence may, in addition to any other penalty imposed, order the forfeiture of…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Territorial jurisdiction
(1) Any court of competent jurisdiction shall try any offence under this Act where the act or omission constituting the offence is…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Point of contact
(1) The Central Authority shall ensure that the investigation agency responsible for investigating cybercrime, shall designate a p…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Mutual assistance regarding the interception of content data
(1) Subject to section 57, a requesting State may request the Central Authority to provide assistance in the real-time collection…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Mutual assistance in the real-time collection of traffic data
(1) Subject to section 57, a requesting State may request the Central Authority to provide assistance in real-time collection of t…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Trans-border access to stored computer data with consent or where publicly available
A police officer or authorised person may, subject to any applicable provisions of this Act — (a) access publicly available stored…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Mutual assistance regarding accessing of stored computer data
(1) Subject to section 57, a requesting State may request the Central Authority to search or similarly access, seize or similarly…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Expedited disclosure of preserved traffic data
Where during the course of executing a request under section 57 with respect to a specified communication, the investigating agenc…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Expedited preservation of stored computer data
(1) Subject to section 57, a requesting State which has the intention to make a request for mutual legal assistance for the search…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Spontaneous information
(1) The Central Authority may, subject to this Act and other relevant law, without prior request, forward to a foreign State infor…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
General principles relating to international cooperation
(1) This Part shall apply in addition to the Mutual Legal Assistance Act, 2011 (No. 36 of 2011) and the Extradition (Contiguous an…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Confidentiality and limitation of liability
(1) A service provider shall not be subject to any civil or criminal liability, unless it is established that the service provider…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Appeal
Any person aggrieved by any decision or order of the Court made under this Part, may appeal to the High Court or Court of Appeal a…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Obstruction and misuse of power
(1) A person who obstructs the lawful exercise of the powers under this Part,including destruction of data, or fails to comply wit…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Interception of content data
(1) Where a police officer or an authorised person has reasonable grounds to believe that the content of any specifically identifi…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Real-time collection of traffic data
(1) Where a police officer or an authorised person has reasonable grounds to believe that traffic data associated with specified c…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Expedited preservation and partial disclosure of traffic data
(1) Where a police officer or an authorised person has reasonable grounds to believe that — (a) any specified traffic data stored…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Production order
(1) Where a police officer or an authorised person has reasonable grounds tobelieve that — (a) specified data stored in a computer…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Record of and access to seized data
(1) Where a computer system or data has been removed or rendered inaccessible, following a search or a seizure under section 48, t…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Search and seizure of stored computer data
(1) Where a police officer or an authorised person has reasonable grounds to believe that there may be in a specified computer sys…
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Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act No 5 of 2018▤
Scope of procedural provisions
(1) All powers and procedures under this Act are applicable to and may beexercised with respect to any — (a) criminal offences pro…
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