SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Minor and consequential amendments

Computer Misuse Act 1990 (c. 18)

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1

Section 5 of that Act (significant links with domestic jurisdiction) is amended as follows.

2

F1In subsection (2), for paragraph (b) there is substituted—

b

that any computer containing any program or data to which the accused by doing that act secured or intended to secure unauthorised access, or enabled or intended to enable unauthorised access to be secured, was in the home country concerned at that time.

3

In subsection (3)—

a

in paragraph (a), for “he did the act which caused the unauthorised modification” there is substituted “ he did the unauthorised act (or caused it to be done) ”;

b

for paragraph (b) there is substituted—

b

that the unauthorised act was done in relation to a computer in the home country concerned.