The Cybercrimes Act provides key definitions of cybercrimes, cyber-dependent and cyber-enabled crimes; guidelines for gathering evidence; deals with issues of jurisdiction; and sets out obligations for electronic communications services providers and financial institutions, research and policy nonprofit organisation Institute of Security Studies senior research adviser Karen Allen points out. The Act provides an arsenal of offences that can now be prosecuted in terms of the legislation, including theft of incorporeal, which has been defined in the Act in terms of common law.
