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Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008 Section 21 - Bare Act

StateCentral Government
Year
Section TitleAmendment of Section 43
Act Info:

In section 43 of the principal Act,--

(a) in the marginal heading, for the word "Penalty", the words "Penalty and Compensation" shall be substituted;

(b) in clause (a), after the words "computer network", the words "or computer resource" shall be inserted;

(c) after clause (h), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:--

"(i) destroys, deletes or alters any information residing in a computer resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously by any means;

(j) steal, conceals, destroys or alters or causes any person to steal, conceal, destroy or alter any computer source code used for a computer resource with an intention to cause damage;";

(d) for the portion begining with the words "he shall be liable to pay damages" and ending with the words "persons so affected" the following shall be substituted, namely:--

"he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected";

(e) in the Explanation, after clause (iv), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:--

'(v) "computer source code" means the listing of programmes, computer commands, design and layout and programme analysis of computer resource in any form.".




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