THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE [Lecat Supplement] A.D. 2018] — A 13™ AUGUST, 2018 297 CYBERCRIME ACT 2018 [No. 16 dollars and to imprisonment for one year. 26. Extension of time for prosecution of an offence. Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law prescribing the time within which proceedings for an offence punishable on summary conviction against may this be Act, commenced, or summary for attempting to proceedings commit, for conspiring an offence with another person to commit, or soliciting, inciting, aiding, abetting or counselling or causing or procuring the commission of, such an offence, or for attempting to solicit, incite, aid, abet, counsel or cause or procure the commission of such an offence, may be commenced within twelve months of the commission of the offence: Provided that where an offence against this Act is punishable on summary conviction and on conviction on indictment, nothing in this section shall be deemed to restrict the power to commence, after the expiry of the aforesaid period of twelve months, proceedings for conviction on indictment for that offence or for any other act, relating to the offence, referred to in this section. Jurisdiction. 27. (1) A court in Guyana shall have jurisdiction in respect of an offence under this Act where the act constituting the offence is carried out— (a) wholly or partly in Guyana; (b) by any person, whether in Guyana or elsewhere; or (c) by a person on board a vessel or aircraft registered in Guyana. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), an act is carried out in Guyana if— (a) the person is in Guyana at the time when the act is committed; (b) the person is outside of Guyana at the time when the act is committed, but — (i) a computer system located in Guyana or electronic

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