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Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (Act No. 38 of 2001)

Chapter 4 : Compliance and Enforcement

67. Definitions

 

For the purposes of sections 65 and 66

(a) "access" in relation to an application or data means rendering that application or data, by whatever means, in a form that would enable a person, at the time when it is so rendered or subsequently, to take account of that application or data, and includes using the application or data or having it output from the computer system in which it is held in a displayed or printed form or to a storage medium or by means of any output device, whether attached to the computer system in which the application or data are held or not;
(b) "application" means a set of instructions that, when executed in a computer system, causes a computer system to perform a function;
(c) "computer system" means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical or other data processing device, including the physical components thereof, and any removable storage medium that is for the time being therein or connected thereto, or a group of such interconnected or related devices, one or more of which is capable of—
(i) containing data; or
(ii) performing a logical, arithmetic or any other function in relation to data;
(d) "data" means any representation of information, knowledge, facts or concepts, capable of being processed in a computer system.