CYBERCRIMES ACT: SEARCH AND SEIZURE OPERATING PROCEDURES PUBLISHED

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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