If you do not help someone who is searching a computer system when they ask you to, you can get in trouble. You must have a good reason for not helping them, or you might be convicted and go to prison for up to 3 months. This is because you are required to assist under section 130(1) when someone with a search power asks for your help.
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177: Offences relating to stopping vehicles, or
"Breaking the law when an officer asks you to stop your vehicle can get you in trouble"
179: Offence to disclose information acquired through search or surveillance, or
"Don't share secret information you get from searches or spying unless it's part of your job."
Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months who fails, without reasonable excuse, to assist a person exercising a search power when requested to do so under section 130(1).
