Paragraph 29 I1I2

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

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

Subsection (7) is omitted.

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.”