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CYBERSECURITY
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(b) no witness in any civil or criminal proceedings is obliged—
(i) to disclose the name, address or other particulars of any informer who has given information with respect to that offence; or
(ii) to answer any question if the answer would lead, or would tend to lead, to the discovery of the name, address or other particulars of the informer.

(11) If any book, document, data or computer output which is admitted in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings contains any entry in which any informer is named or described or which may lead to the informer’s discovery, the court must cause those entries to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery.

PART 5
CYBERSECURITY SERVICE PROVIDERS

No person to provide licensable cybersecurity service without licence

24.—(1) Except under and in accordance with a cybersecurity service provider’s licence granted or renewed under section 26, no person—

(a) may engage in the business of providing any licensable cybersecurity service to other persons; or
(b) being a person who is in the business of providing a licensable cybersecurity service, may advertise, or in any way hold out, that the person provides, or is willing to provide, the licensable cybersecurity service.

(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.