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CYBERCRIMES ACT: SEARCH AND SEIZURE OPERATING PROCEDURES PUBLISHED
- 06 October 2023
- Cybercrimes
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Police has gazetted a notice on the availability of a document prescribing standard operating procedures for conducting investigations and searches under the Cybercrimes Act, 2020 – as well as accessing and seizing articles.
This may be indicative either of the Act’s imminent commencement or of a proclamation declaring certain sections effective.
Signed into law in June 2021, among other things the Cybercrimes Act:
- creates offences of activities with ‘a bearing on cybercrime’
- criminalises the disclosure of harmful data messages
- provides for interim protection orders, and
- further regulates:
- jurisdiction in respect of cybercrimes, and
- measures relating to mutual assistance when investigating cybercrimes.
Please click the links below for more information:
- operating procedures
- Government Gazette notice
- Act
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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