Victorian Current Acts

CRIMES ACT 1958 - SECT 247F

    (1)     A person who produces, supplies or obtains data—

        (a)     with the intention of committing a serious computer offence; or

        (b)     with the intention of facilitating the commission of a serious computer offence (whether by the person or by another person)—

is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years.

    (2)     In this section, a reference to a person producing, supplying or obtaining data includes a reference to the person—

        (a)     producing, supplying or obtaining data held in a computer or contained in a data storage device; and

        (b)     producing, supplying or obtaining a document in which the data is recorded.

    (3)     A person may be found guilty of an offence against this section even if committing the serious computer offence is impossible.

S. 247G inserted by No. 10/2003 s. 5.