When the National Assembly meets on April 26 a total of six new bills including an amendment to the Interception of Communications Act will be read for the first time.
The Amendment being tabled by Minister of Public Telecommunications Catherine Hughes seeks to provide more exceptions to the offence of communication interception.
Under Section 3 of the 2008 Act a persons who intentionally intercepts a communication in the course of its transmission by means of a telecommunications system commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five million dollars and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.
