THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE [LEGAL SupPLEMENT] A.D. 2018] — A 13" AUGUST, 2018 293 CYBERCRIME ACT 2018 [No. 16 to disseminate any information, statement or image, knowing the same to be false, that — (a) causes damage to the reputation of another person; or (b) subjects another person to public ridicule, contempt, hatred or embarrassment. (4) benefit A person who uses a computer system with the intent to extort a from another person by threatening to publish electronic data containing personal or private information which can cause the other person public ridicule, contempt, hatred or embarrassment commits an offence. (5) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable— (a) on summary conviction to a fine of five million dollars and to imprisonment for three years; and (b) on conviction on indictment to a fine of ten million dollars and to imprisonment for five years. (6) In subsection (1) — (a) “intimidate” means — (i) to cause in the mind of a reasonable person an apprehension of injury to him or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property; or (ii) (b) to cause a person substantial emotional distress; and “injury” includes injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment or other source of income, and includes an actionable wrong. Infringement of copyright, patents and designs and trademarks. 20. A person who uses a computer system to infringe — (a) 4&5 ELIZ. 2 Cap. 74 the rights of the copyright owner under the Copyright Act 1956 . as applied to Guyana . . . with certain exceptions and modifications to form part of the law of Guyana by the 8.1. No. 79 of 1966 Copyright (British Guiana) Order, 1966; (b) the rights of the proprietor of the patent or the rights of the

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