THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE [Lecat Supplement]
A.D. 2018]
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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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