| (1) |
Any person who unlawfully and intentionally— |
| (c) |
provides to another person; or |
a password, an access code or similar data or device for purposes of contravening the provisions of section 2(1) or (2), 3(1), 5(1), 6(1), 8 or 9(1), is guilty of an offence.
| (2) |
Any person who is found in possession of a password, an access code or similar data or device in regard to which there is a reasonable suspicion that such password, access code or similar data or device— |
| (c) |
is to be provided to another person; or |
| (d) |
was used or may be used, |
for purposes of contravening the provisions of section 2(1) or (2), 3(1), 5(1), 6(1), 8 or 9(1), and who is unable to give a satisfactory exculpatory account of such possession, is guilty of an offence.
| (3) |
For purposes of this section ‘‘password, access code or similar data or device’’ includes— |
| (a) |
a secret code or pin; |
| (g) |
a word or a string of characters or numbers, |
used for financial transactions or user-authentication in order to access or use data, a computer program, a computer data storage medium or a computer system.
Copyright Act, 1978
