Criminal Code, Computer and Information Offences
Criminal Code, Computer and Information Offences, Arts. 201-203 (amended up to April 2009)
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In force.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not intrude into a computer network in the fields of state administration, national defence construction, or advanced science and technology; this offence does not, on its own text, reach crawling an ordinary public, non-governmental website.
- Do not destroy important information stored on a computer or other information-processing device, or input or spread false information through a computer network in a way that causes confusion in information processing.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Article 201 sets a maximum of 2 years of labour-reform for network intrusion into a state-administration, national-defence, or advanced-science-and-technology network; Article 202 sets a maximum of 3 years of labour-reform for destroying important information on a computer or similar device; Article 203 sets a maximum of 2 years of labour-reform for inputting or spreading false information through a computer network. None of the three states a fine.
What this law does
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Article 201 (Crime of Computer Network Intrusion) punishes with up to 2 years of labour-reform a person who intrudes into a computer network in the fields of state administration, national defence construction, or advanced science and technology, a narrow, sector-limited offence rather than a general unauthorised-access law reaching an ordinary public website.
Article 202 (Crime of Information Destruction) punishes with up to 3 years of labour-reform a person who destroys important information stored in an information-processing device such as a computer. Article 203 (Crime of Inputting or Spreading False Information) punishes with up to 2 years of labour-reform a person who, under greed, jealousy, or another base motive, inputs false information into a computer network or spreads it, causing confusion in information processing.
None of the three articles carries a monetary fine; the sanction is a term of the Code's own labour-training or labour-reform, not a penalty this dataset's schema expresses as a monetary cap.
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