Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 2002 - SECT 420

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person causes unauthorised access to or modification of restricted data held in a computer; and

        (b)     the person knows the access or modification is unauthorised; and

        (c)     the person intends to cause the access or modification.

Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units, imprisonment for 2 years or both.

    (2)     In this section:

"restricted data" means data held in a computer to which access is restricted by an access control system associated with a function of the computer.