# Meanings of unauthorised modification and unauthorised impairment etc.

> act-s261AKG — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

261AKG Meanings of unauthorised modification and unauthorised
       impairment etc.
          (1) In this Subdivision:
                (a) modification of a video recording; or
                (b) impairment of the reliability of a video recording; or
                (c) impairment of the security of the storage of a video
                    recording; or
                (d) impairment of the operation of a system by which a video
                    recording is stored;
              by a person is unauthorised if the person is not entitled to cause
              that modification or impairment.
          (2) Any such modification or impairment caused by the person is not
              unauthorised merely because he or she has an ulterior purpose for
              causing it.
          (3) For the purposes of an offence under this Subdivision, a person
              causes any such unauthorised modification or impairment if the
              person’s conduct substantially contributes to it.
          (4) For the purposes of subsection (1), if:
                (a) a person causes any modification or impairment of a kind
                    mentioned in that subsection; and
                (b) the person does so under a warrant issued under the law of
                    the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
              the person is entitled to cause that modification or impairment.