SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Minor and consequential amendments

Computer Misuse Act 1990 (c. 18)

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1

Section 17 of that Act (interpretation) is amended as follows.

2

F1In subsection (2), after “such access” there is inserted “ or to enable such access to be secured ”.

3

Subsection (7) is omitted.

4

For subsection (8) there is substituted—

8

An act done in relation to a computer is unauthorised if the person doing the act (or causing it to be done)—

a

is not himself a person who has responsibility for the computer and is entitled to determine whether the act may be done; and

b

does not have consent to the act from any such person.

In this subsection “act” includes a series of acts.