SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
BILL FOR
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ACT NO.
OF 2016
I ASSENT
Governor - General
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AN ACT to provide for the creation of offences related to cybercrimes and for related matters.
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BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the House of
Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and by the authority of the same, as follows:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title and commencement
1.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Cybercrime Act, 2016.
(2) This Act comes into force on a day to be appointed by the Governor-General by Proclamation
published in the Gazette.
Interpretation
2.
In this Act –
“apparatus” includes –
(a) a computer system or part of a computer system; or
(b) a computer data storage medium;
“child” means a person under the age of eighteen years;
“child pornography” means material that –
(a) depicts or presents a child engaged in sexual activity or conduct;
(b) depicts or presents a child in a sexually explicit pose;
(c) depicts or presents, for sexual purposes, parts of a child’s body pasted to visual representations of
parts of an adult’s body or vice versa;
(d) depicts or presents, for sexual purposes, parts of a child’s body which have been rendered
complete by computer generated images or by other methods of visual representation;
(e) depicts or presents a person appearing to be a child engaged in sexual conduct; or