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Number and year of
law
Short title
Extent of repeal or amendment
of, child pornography, by means of
a computer network or an
electronic
communications
network, is guilty of an offence.
(9) Any person or
electronic communications service
provider who, having knowledge
of the commission of any offence
referred to in subsections (1) to
(8), or having reason to suspect
that such an offence has been or
is being committed and unlawfully
and intentionally fails to—
(a)
report such knowledge or
suspicion as soon as
possible to a police official;
or
(b)
furnish, at the request of
the South African Police
Service, all particulars of
such
knowledge
or
suspicion,
is guilty of an offence.
(c) The amendment of section
56A of the Act, by the addition of
the following subsection:
“(3) Any
person
or
electronic communications service
provider who contravenes the
provisions of section 20A(9), is
liable, on conviction to a fine not
exceeding R 5 million or to
imprisonment for a period not
exceeding 5 years or to both such
fine and imprisonment.”.