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Police Law 11th Edition

40. Offences of Fraud and Corruption

Chapter 40

Unauthorised access to computer material p 1125

The first paragraph under this heading should now read:

'By CMA 1990, s 1(1), a person commits an offence if:

1. he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
2. the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
3. he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that this is the case.'