Penal Code, unauthorized access to an information system
Code pénal Loi n° 20-038/AU du 29 décembre 2020, promulguée par Décret n° 21-018/PR du 16 février 2021, Chapitre 4 (De la cybercriminalité), Section 2, art. 451
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In force since 16 February 2021.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not access, or attempt to access, any part of an information system without authorization.
- Do not remain, or attempt to remain, within an information system once access is no longer authorized.
- Do not alter, intercept, or use data obtained through unauthorized access to an information system.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 451 punishes fraudulent access or attempted access to an information system with one to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 Comorian francs; related articles in the same section (452 through 459) reach fraudulently remaining in a system, hindering or corrupting it, intercepting or altering data, or using fraudulently obtained data, with penalties escalating up to five to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of up to 10,000,000 Comorian francs.
Penalty structure
Figures given are for article 451 (unauthorized access) specifically; other Section 2 offenses (articles 452-459) carry their own, generally higher fixed ranges up to 10,000,000 KMF and are not aggregated into this figure.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 7 September 2026
- Minimum
- 500,000
- Currency
- KMF
- Fixed cap
- 5,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ministère Public (public prosecutor), Union of the Comoros
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Article 451 of Chapter 4's Section 2 (Infractions spécifiques aux technologies de l'information et de la communication) punishes with one to two years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to 5,000,000 Comorian francs whoever accesses or attempts to access, fraudulently, all or part of an information system.
Article 452 separately punishes fraudulently remaining or attempting to remain within all or part of a system, and articles 453 through 459 punish fraudulently hindering, corrupting, intercepting, altering, or forging data, or knowingly using fraudulently obtained data, or obtaining an advantage by any of those means.
None of these articles carries a public-page or authorization-test exception, so the chapter reads as a general unauthorized-access regime rather than one written with automated collection of published web content in mind.
When LexLint raises it
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