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THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE [Lecat Supplement]
No. 16]
LAWS
AN ACT
OF
—
A
13™ AUGUST, 2018
GUYANA
[A.D. 2018
to combat cybercrime by creating offences of cybercrime; to provide for
penalties, investigation and prosecution of the offences and related matters.
D.2018
Enacted by the Parliament of Guyana:-
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Cybercrime Act 2018.
Interpretation.
2.
In this Act —
“child” means a person under the age of eighteen years;
“child pornography”(a)
means any visual depiction, including any film, video,
digital image, computer or computer-generated or
modified image, animation or text, of —
(i)
a child engaging in real or simulated explicit
sexual activity;
(ii) a child in a sexually explicit pose;
(iii) parts of a child’s body pasted,
for sexual
purposes, to visual representations of parts of
an adult’s body or vice versa;
(b) does not include any visual representation of a child’s
body
produced
or
reproduced
education,
counselling,
health
as
or
prosecution
performance
part
or
civil
of
a
for
the
or promotion
of a criminal
proceedings
person’s
purpose
of
of reproductive
investigation
or
in
profession,
the
duties
and
lawful
and
functions;
(c) does not require proof of the actual identity of a child;
“computer
programme”
means
electronic
data
which