[3 Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etc]
Computer Misuse Act 1990 (1990 c 18) | Legislation

[3  Unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etc]

[(1)     A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a)     he does any unauthorised act in relation to a computer;

(b)     at the time when he does the act he knows that it is unauthorised; and

(c)     either subsection (2) or subsection (3) below applies.

(2)     This subsection applies if the person intends by doing the act—

(a)

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