Section 6Part 0 —
Unauthorised use or interception of computer service
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A person who knowingly —
secures access without authority to a computer for the purpose of obtaining, directly or indirectly, any computer service;
intercepts or causes to be intercepted without authority, directly or indirectly, any function or output of a computer by means of an electromagnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device; or
uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, the computer or any other device for the purpose of committing an offence under paragraph (a) or (b), commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $6,000 or to imprisonment for a term of two years, or to both.
Where a person is convicted of committing an offence under subsection (1) and he has caused, during the commission of the offence, any damage to a computer or any other damage arising directly from the damage caused to the computer and the damage exceeds $10,000, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term of five years, or to both.
For the purposes of this section, it is immaterial that the unauthorised access or interception is not directed at —
any particular information;
information of any kind; or
information held in any particular computer.