“computer system” means interconnected or related computer devices, one or more of which
uses a programme to perform the automatic processing of data, exchange data with each
other or any other computer system or connect to an electronic communications network;
“Criminal Law Code” means Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23];
“critical database” means a computer data storage medium or any part thereof which contains
critical data;
“critical information infrastructure” means computer systems, devices, networks,
computer programmes, computer data, so vital to the country that the incapacity or
destruction of or interference with such systems and assets would have a debilitating
impact on security, defence, economic and international affairs, public health and safety,
or to essential services as defined in section 19 of the Criminal Law Code including the
banking system and “critical data” shall be construed accordingly;
“cybercrime” means any offence under this Act;
“data” means any representation of facts, concepts, information, whether in text, audio, video,
images, machine-readable code or instructions, in a form suitable for communications,
interpretation or processing in a computer device, computer system, database, electronic
communications network or related devices and includes a computer programme and
traffic data;
“electronic communications network” means any electronic
infrastructures and facilities used for the conveyance of data;
communications
“hosting provider” means any person providing an electronic data transmission service by
storing of information provided by a user of the service;
“hyperlink” means a characteristic or property of an element such as symbol, word, phrase,
sentence or image that contains information about another source and points to and causes
to display another document when executed;
“information and communications technologies” mean a device or inter-connected or
related devices that are used or that are responsible for the creation, transmission,
receiving, processing and/or collation of digital data by making use of computer, software,
networking, telecommunications, Internet, programming and information system
technologies;
“information system” means a device or inter-connected or related devices, one or more of
which uses a programme to automatically processes computer data as well as computer
data stored, processed, retrieved or transmitted by that device or inter-connected or related
devices for the purposes of its or their operation, use, protection or maintenance;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for information and communications technologies;
“pornography” includes any representation, through publication, exhibition,
cinematography, electronic means or any other means whatsoever, of a person engaged
in real or simulated explicit sexual activity, or any representation of the sexual parts of a
person for primarily sexual purposes;
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