Criminal Code Act 1995
Section 3
CHAPTER 10 - NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE Part 10.7 - Computer offences Division 477 - Serious computer offences SECTION 477.1 Unauthorised access, modification or impairment with intent to commit a serious offenceIntention to commit a serious Commonwealth, State or Territory offence
(1)
A person commits an offence if:
(a) the person causes:
(i) any unauthorised access to data held in a computer; or
(ii) any unauthorised modification of data held in a computer; or
(iii) any unauthorised impairment of electronic communication to or from a computer; and
(b) (Repealed by No 120 of 2012)
(c) the person knows the access, modification or impairment is unauthorised; and
(d) the person intends to commit, or facilitate the commission of, a serious offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory (whether by that person or another person) by the access, modification or impairment.
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(Repealed by No 120 of 2012)
(3)
In a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) , it is not necessary to prove that the defendant knew that the offence was:
(a) an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or
(b) a serious offence.
(4)
(Repealed by No 120 of 2012)
(5)
(Repealed by No 120 of 2012)
Penalty
(6)
A person who commits an offence against this section is punishable, on conviction, by a penalty not exceeding the penalty applicable to the serious offence.
Impossibility
(7)
A person may be found guilty of an offence against this section even if committing the serious offence is impossible.
No offence of attempt
(8)
It is not an offence to attempt to commit an offence against this section.
Meaning of serious offence
(9)
In this section:
serious offence
means an offence that is punishable by imprisonment for life or a period of 5 or more years.
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