Section 11 of the Theft Ordinance (Cap 210), relating to burglary was amended by adding a new interpretive provision (s 11(3A)) in the following terms:
“The reference in subsection (2)(c) to doing unlawful damage to anything in a building includes—
(a) unlawfully causing a computer in the building to function other than as it has been established by or on behalf of its owner to function, notwithstanding that the unlawful action may not impair the operation of the computer or a program held in the computer or the reliability of data held in the computer;
(b) unlawfully altering or erasing any program, or data, held in a computer in the building or in a computer storage medium in the building; and
(c) unlawfully adding any program or data to the contents of a computer in the building or a computer storage medium in the building.”