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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Minor and consequential amendments

Computer Misuse Act 1990 (c. 18)

29(1)Section 17 of that Act (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2)In 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.