Electronic Crimes Act, 2013, unauthorised access and interference
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In force.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not gain access to, or download, copy or extract data from, an electronic system or network without the permission of its owner or the person in charge of it.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
A fine not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding three years, or both, on summary conviction (s. 5(2)). Grenada's currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD).
Penalty structure
Fine only; the same subsection also allows imprisonment of up to three years instead of or in addition to the fine (s. 5(2)).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 5 September 2026
- Currency
- XCD
- Fixed cap
- 200,000
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Section 5(1) prohibits a person from, knowingly and without lawful excuse, justification or the permission of the owner or person in charge of an electronic system or network, gaining access to it, or downloading, copying or extracting data, an electronic database or information from it.
Unlike a computer-misuse offence conditioned on defeating a technical security measure, section 5's chapeau turns on the absence of permission from the person in charge of the system, a standard that on its face can reach a scraper that accesses or extracts data from a public, unauthenticated page without the site operator's permission; no reported Grenadian case has tested the provision against that fact pattern.
The offence carries a fine of up to two hundred thousand dollars or imprisonment of up to three years, or both, on summary conviction. The Act was approved in 2013 and, per Council of Europe reporting, amended by Act No. 10 of 2014 (which repealed three unrelated sections, 6, 16 and 25) and came into effect in 2016; no source located states the day-precise commencement date.
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Read the law
Official text of the Electronic Crimes Act, 2013, Government of Grenada (gov.gd), archived copy