Cyber Crimes Bill passed
February 20, 2010 |12:59 | Gossips By : Team X
The House or Representatives on Tuesday passed the Cyber Crimes Bill without amendments. The bill when enacted will give law enforcers greater powers to prosecute persons who hack into computer programmes with criminal intent.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding who piloted the bill in Parliament, said provisions have been made for a special committee to be established to review the cyber crimes law every three years.
In addition, he said calls from some Parliamentarians for the legal draughts-men to redefine computers in the legislation will not be heeded.
"We're advised to do precisely the opposite ... to maintain the legislation as technology neutral with a sufficiently broad definition of computer so that any derivative or variation of that can still be called computer. In the event that technology was to move in a such a way that an instrument that is used to commit the kinds of offences that we're seeking to capture here falls outside the broad definition that we have, then at such time, we will have to examine that and come back to modify the legislation," the Prime Minister said.
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