21/10/2025
This is what the cyber crime law holds
1. Section 3. It is an Offence to access someone’s phone or computer (5 years imprisonment).
2. Section 4. It is an Offence to modify, delete, obstruct etc someone’s data (5 years imprisonment).
3. Section 5. It is an Offence to communicate “critical information” to someone not authorised (15 years imprisonment)
4. Section 6. !It is an offence to possess “critical information” (15 years imprisonment)
5. Section 10. It is an offence to record private conversations even if you are part of the conversation (2 years imprisonment)
6. Section 19. It is an offence to publish misleading information (2 years imprisonment)
7. Section 21. !When you receive a summons or police call-outs, for Cyber Crimes it is an offence to disclose that (5yrs)
8. Section 22. It is an offence to be rude, indecent or vulgar with the intent to humiliate (2 years imprisonment)
9. Section 24. !It is an act of domestic terrorism to attempt to incite ethnic divisions among the people of the Republic (Imprisonment for life)
