(1) A person who knowing and without authority causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to a programme or electronic record held in that computer or in any other computer, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than five years or to both.

(2) For the purposes of sections 107 to 141, it is immaterial that the act in question is not directed at

(a) a particular programme or electronic record,

(b) a programme or electronic record of any kind, or

(3) A person secures or gains access to a programme or electronic record held in a computer if by causing the computer to perform any function, the person

(a) alters or erases the programme or electronic record,

(b) copies or moves it to a storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held,

(d) causes it to be output from the computer in which it is held, whether by having it displayed or in any other manner, and references to access to a programme or electronic record and to an intent to secure the access, shall be read accordingly.

(4) A person uses a programme if the function the person causes the computer to perform

(a) causes the programme to be executed, or

(b) is itself a function of the programme.

(5) For the purposes of this Act, the form of any programme or electronic record is immaterial.