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[Antigua and Barbuda]{#ab} [Source 5]
Art. 21(5)(c) of Computer Misuse Bill, 2006 contains a power to order people to provide decryption information. The power can be executed by police officers who execute a warrant, in case of offences defined in the Act or other offences disclosed while executing powers based on the Act. The police officer also has the power to access decryption information himself (art. 21(5)(a)(iii)). Obstructing the police or failing to comply with the decryption order is punishable with a fine of 15,000 dollars and/or two years' imprisonment (art. 21(6)). The Bill does not yet seem to have been enacted as of January 2007, according to the overview of laws.
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