Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act CAP. 8:02 (No. 17 of 1893)

1. Short title.

2. Interpretation.

3. References to ‚The public‛.

4. Town constables to have powers of police, etc. PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS TITLE 1—INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

5. Acts done partly within and partly beyond the jurisdiction.

6. Presumption of age of child.

7. Saving of right of punishment.

8. Saving of jurisdiction of High Court.

9. Saving offences constituted by other written law.

10. Saving of liability under other written law.

11. Restrictions on jurisdiction in respect of questions of title or insolvency. TITLE 2—PUNISHMENTS

12. Punishments under the Act.

13. Infliction of lesser fine.

14. Award of compensation to person injured.

15. Effect of payment of compensation.

16. Saving of civil action.

17. Reduction of term of imprisonment.

18. Consecutive sentences of imprisonment.

19. Abetment of summary conviction offence.

20. Attempt and incitement to commit summary conviction offence. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 4 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) SECTION PART II OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON TITLE 4— ASSAULT AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

21. Assault.

22. Aggravated assault.

23. Ill-treatment and neglect of child. 24. [Repealed by Act No. 7 of 2010]

25. Assault by person when disguised.

26. Assaulting or threatening violence to purchaser of produce.

27. (1) Wrongful interference with exercise of right. (2) Peaceful picketing.

28. Assault with intent to resist lawful apprehension.

29. Assault on judicial officer or minister.

30. Causing actual bodily harm and unlawful wounding.

31. Where offence is accompanied by attempt to commit indictable offence. PART III OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY AND RIGHTS ARISING OUT OF CONTRACTS TITLE 5—WILFUL TRESPASS TO PROPERTY

32. Interpretation of term in Title 5.

33. Acts constituting wilful trespass.

34. Wilful trespass notwithstanding notice.

35. Trespass to land by night.

36. Mode of dealing with article found in possession of wilful trespasser.

37. Dealing with animal or thing brought on land by wilful trespasser.

38. Wilful trespass with vessel on private wharf notwithstanding notice.

39. Wilful trespass on land between high and low water-marks notwithstanding notice, and fishing therefrom.

40. Wilful trespass on land between high and low water-marks notwithstanding notice, and cutting wood thereon.

41. Saving of certain rights of pathway. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 5 SECTION

42. Penalty for wilful trespass.

43. Injury to notice forbidding trespassers.

44. Assistance in apprehension of wilful trespasser.

45. Prevention of squatting.

46. Making of complaint under Title 5. TITLE 6—MALICIOUS INJURY TO PROPERTY Injury to Growing Things

47. Injury to growing trees to amount not exceeding $1,000.

48. Injury to growing trees elsewhere than in park, to amount not exceeding $10,000.

49. Injury to trees wherever growing, to amount not exceeding $10,000.

50. Destroying vegetable product growing in garden.

51. Destroying vegetable product growing elsewhere than in garden. Injury to Animals

52. Poisoning and destroying fish.

53. Injury to animal not being cattle.

54. Catching and using cattle, without consent of owner.

55. Injury to cattle.

56. Injury to fences, walls or gates.

57. Injury to parts of electric or magnetic telegraph.

58. Injury to literary, scientific or artistic work.

59. Injury to fishing apparatus.

60. Injury to goods entrusted to worker thereon. Supplemental Provisions

61. Recovery of damage to property

62. Injury without pecuniary damage.

63. When offender is in possession of property injured.

64. Malice against owner of property not necessary.

65. Saving of act done under colour of right. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 6 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) SECTION TITLE 7- LARCENY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES Simple Larceny

66. Simple larceny.

67. Larceny by bailee. Larceny of Growing Things

68. Stealing or damaging things growing in garden of value not exceeding $15,000.

69. Stealing or damaging things growing elsewhere than in garden of value not exceeding $15,000.

70. Stealing or damaging things, wherever growing, of value not exceeding $15,000.

71. Stealing or damaging vegetable product growing in garden.

72. Praedial larceny.

73. Praedial larceny, with aggravating circumstances.

74. Larceny of fruit, root or plant, other than those in section 72. 75 Interpretation of terms in next section.

76. (1) Stealing of raw gold, precious stones, valuable minerals petroleum, balata, rubber and the like. (2) Entering land with intent so to steal.

77. Killing house-dove or pigeon.

78. Taking fish in water in private land.

79. Taking fish in other water.

80. Saving of angling rights in the day-time.

81. Mode of dealing with person found fishing contrary to this Title.

82. Larceny of animal ordinarily kept in confinement.

83. Dog-stealing.

84. Larceny of certain animals of value not exceeding $30,000.

85. Killing those animals with intent to steal carcass. Miscellaneous Larcenies

86. Damaging a fence with intent to steal.

87. Larceny from the person to amount not exceeding $30,000. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 7 SECTION

88. Larceny by tenant or lodger of chattel or fixture let with house or lodging.

89. Larceny by clerk or servant.

90. Servant taking his master‘s corn for animal. Embezzlement

91. Embezzlement by clerk or servant. Fraudulent Misappropriation

92. Fraudulent misappropriation. Receiving

93. Receiving stolen property. Unlawful Possession

94. Possession of thing reasonably suspected to have been stolen.

95. Unlawful possession of animal or part thereof.

96. Possession of instrument for obtaining liquor.

97. Possession of thing from vessel in distress or wrecked.

98. Offering for sale thing taken from vessel in distress or wrecked. False Pretences, Embezzlement, Corruption

99. Obtaining by false pretence property not exceeding $30,000 in value.

100. Fraudulently obtaining credit and dealing with property with intent to defraud creditors.

101. False trade description.

102. Larceny or embezzlement by partner.

103. Advertising reward for return of stolen property.

104. Corruptly taking money to restore stolen dog.

105. (1) Interpretation. (2) Corrupt transactions with agents. (3) Onus of proof. (4) Prosecution of offences. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 8 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences)2 SECTION TITLE 8—FORGERY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

106. Sending false telegram; signing without authority. Certificates as to Character or Employment

107. False personation of master, or giving forged or counterfeit character.

108. Giving false certificate as to service.

109. Making false statement as to servant‘s service.

110. Offering for service under false pretence.

111. Giving false or counterfeit character for general purposes.

112. Indemnification of offender discovering his accomplice.

113. Penalty for offence against Title 8. TITLE 9—FALSE COIN

114. Interpretation of terms in Title 9.

115. Defacing coin by marks.

116. Uttering defaced coin.

117. Mode of dealing with suspected gold or silver coin when tendered in payment.

118. Mode of dealing with gold coin below weight.

119. Mode of dealing with counterfeit coin when discovered.

120. Proof of falsity of coin.

121. When offence of tendering, uttering and putting off complete.

122. Criminal possession under Title 9. PART IV OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER TITLE 10— RIOTOUS DISTURBANCES

123. Proclamation of disturbed district.

124. Proclamation to be laid before National Assembly.

125. Revocation of proclamation.

126. Destroying or defacing proclamation. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 9 SECTION

127. Assembling in disorderly manner and refusing to disperse.

128. Offences in proclaimed district.

129. Proclamation that retail spirit shops be closed.

130. (1) Apprehension of offender against Title 10. (2) Penalty for refusal to aid apprehension. TITLE 11—DISORDERLY CONDUCT

131. Drunkenness.

132. Habitual drunkenness.

133. Permitting disorderly conduct in place of public resort.

134. Expulsion from premises of drunken person, etc.

135. Riotous behaviour in place of worship.

136. Riotous behaviour in public.

137. Causing public terror.

138. Unlawfully carrying arms in public way or place.

139. Public fight.

140. Public insult, and provocation.

141. Provoking breach of peace.

142. Apprehension of offender without warrant. PART V OFFENCES AGAINST RELIGION, MORALITY AND PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TITLE 12 - POLICE OFFENCES Vagrants

143. Vagrancy. Rogues and Vagabonds

144. Roguery and vagabondage. Obeah and Witchcraft

145. (1) Interpretation of ‚obeah‛. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 10 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) SECTION (2) (a) Practising obeah to intimidate, defraud or injure. (b) Aiding and abetting. (3) Search for articles used in obeah and witchcraft. (4) Possession for purposes of obeah. (5) Fortune-telling. (6) Seizure and disposal of articles used for witchcraft.

146. Proof of unlawful intent. Incorrigible Rogues

147. Incorrigible roguery.

148. Requiring incorrigible rogue to find sureties.

149. Apprehension of offender against this Title.

150. Harbouring thieves in lodging-house, or place of sale of liquors or brothels and imprisonment in lieu of sureties.

151. Entering premises for discovery of thieves.

151A. Lodging or harbouring of wanted persons. Search for Stolen Property

152. Entry by police on premises and search for and seizure of stolen property. Minor Offences, Chiefly in Towns

153. (1) Various minor offences principally in relation to towns; (i) disturbing inhabitant of town during the night; (ii) discharging cannon within 300 yards of dwelling-house; (iii) discharging fire-arm within 100 yards of public way; (iv) exposing for sale cattle in improper place in town; (v) grooming animal on public way in town; (vi) placing goods on public way in town; (vii) placing goods over public way in town; (viii) rolling or carrying articles on footway in town; (ix) obstructing public; (x) throwing materials on public way L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 11 (xi) beating mat in public way in town; (xii) furious riding and driving (xiii) rapid riding or driving at corners; (xiv) driving cattle in dangerous manner in public way (xv) driving cattle without proper assistance; (xvi) carrying thing in two -wheeled vehicle; (xvii) carrying thin in vehicle generally; (xviii) hauling timber, etc., on public way; (xix) careless driving of cart or carriage; (xx) obstruction of public way; (xxi) riding of footways; (xxii) roller-skating on road; (xxiii) causing obstruction in public way with vehicle; (xxiv) allowing public vehicle to stand in improper place in town; (xxv) leaving vehicle unattended in public way; (xxvi) shouting or blowing horn, etc., in public way; (xxvii) throwing stones; (xxviii) stoning railway vehicle; (xxix) flying kite in public way; (xxx) flying kite in Georgetown; (xxxi) flying kite in New Amsterdam; (xxxii) setting on ferocious dog; (xxxiii) suffering rabid dog to be at large; (xxxiv) suffering dog to be at large after notice; (xxxv) making fire in town elsewhere than in kitchen; (xxxvi) lighting or carrying fire in town; (xxxvii) making bonfire or exploding fireworks in town; (xxxviii) smoking on wharf; (xxxix) extinguishing street lamp; (xl) cleansing cask, etc., in public way; (xli) throwing litter in public way; (xlii) throwing objects from house in town; (xliii) fixing thing in window in town; (xliv) leaving open pit unfenced; (xlv) assembling in public way, for disorderly purpose, and not dispersing when required; (xlvi) loitering about shop; L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 12 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) SECTION (xlvii) wearing of female attire by man; wearing of male attire by woman; (xlviii) behaving irreverently near place of worship; (xlix) bill posting without consent of owner.

154. When driver‘s name is unknown.

155. When person in charge of vehicle or animal is apprehended.

156. Release and rescue of impounded stray. TITLE 13 – NUISANCE Indecency and Obscenity

157. Circulation of or traffic in obscene objects.

158. Power to search for, seize and destroy obscene objects.

159. Indecent advertisement.

160. Requirement as to decent clothing in public.

161. Bathing in public insufficiently clothed.

162. Various acts of indecency.

163. Use of profane language.

164. Apprehension of offender. Brothels and Prostitution

165. Keeping brothel.

166. Prostitution. Dancing-houses

167. Warrant to search suspected house.

168. Presumption of guilt.

169. Dancing in town at night after midnight. Keeping of Animals, etc.

170. Power of police to enter and seize.

171. Horse, mule or ass, in public way.

172. Power to destroy rabid or mangy dog at large.

173. Placing dead animal on public way. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 13 SECTION

174. Blowing horn, etc. 174 A. Making of loud continuous noise.

174B. Prohibition of the playing of music in a motor bus or hire car. TITLE 14 – MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES

175. Interpretation.

176. Offences of cruelty.

177. (1) Power of court to order destruction of animal. (2) No appeal in certain cases.

178. Power of court to deprive person convicted of cruelty of ownership of animal.

179. Compensation for damage done by cruelty to animal.

180. Animals detained before being sent to pound.

181. Poisoned grain and flesh.

182. Use of dogs for purpose of draught.

183. Inspection of traps.

184. Injured animals.

185. Detention of vehicle or animal.

186. Owners to produce animals if so required. Surgical Treatment of Animals

187. Provisions as to operations on animals.

188. Repealed

189. Repealed.

190. Repealed.

191. Repealed.

192. Repealed.

193. Repealed. Detention of Goods

194. Power of the court with respect to unlawful detention of articles.

195. Disposal or retention by workman of article committed to his care.

196. Negligent use of fire. Regulation of Judicial Proceedings

197. Obstructing or insulting magistrate or justice.

198. Prohibition on taking of photographs, etc., in court.

199. Restriction of publication of reports of judicial proceedings. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 14 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) SECTION False Information to Public Officers

200. False information with intent to cause a public officer to use his lawful power to the injury of another person. Intimidation of Workers

201. Intimidation or obstruction of worker. Attempted Suicide

202. Attempt to commit suicide. Currency Notes

203. Interpretation.

204. Imitation of currency notes.

205. Mutilating or defacing currency notes. FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE 1929 Ed. c. 13 CHAPTER 8:02 1953 Ed. c.14 SUMMARY JURISDICTION (OFFENCES) ACT 18 of 1893 An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Procedure with respect to Offences punishable on Summary Conviction. [1 MARCH, 1894] Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 15 Interpretation. 2. In this Act – [24 of 1969 O. 15/1970 25 of 1973 "act" includes any act or omission, and any series, and O. 88/1975] any combination, of acts and omissions; "cart" means any cart, wagon, wain, truck, barrow, or other vehicle on wheels used to carry loads or burdens; "child" means any person who, in the opinion of the court, is under the age of fourteen years; "complainant" includes any informant or prosecutor in any case relating to a summary conviction offence; "complaint" includes any information or charge relating to a summary conviction offence; "the court" means a magistrate‘s court acting in the exercise of its jurisdiction in respect of summary conviction offences; "defendant" means any person against whom a complaint is made; "document of title to goods" includes any bill of lading, permit, dock warrant, warehouse-keeper‘s certificate, warrant or order for the delivery or transfer of any goods or valuable thing, bought and sold note, or any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods or authorising or purporting to authorise, either by endorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive any goods thereby represented or therein mentioned or referred to; "documents of title to lands" includes any grant, licence, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 16 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) letters of decree, transport, deed, will, map, paper, or parchment, whether written, or printed, or partly written and partly printed, being or containing evidence of the title, or any part of the title, to any immovable property or real estate, or to any interest in or out of any immovable property or real estate; "guardian" in relation to a child, means the parent or other lawful guardian of the child and includes any person, being of or above the age of eighteen years, who, in the opinion of the court, has for the time being the actual custody, control, or charge of the child; "indictable offence" means any offence punishable on indictment before the High Court; "indictment" includes any includes any criminal information triable by a jury; "night" or "night time" means the interval between eight o‘clock in the evening of any day and 5:45 o‘clock in the morning of the following day; "person", "owner" and other words and expressions of the same kind include the State and all governments, public bodies, bodies corporate, societies, and companies, in relation to the acts and things they are capable of doing and owning respectively; "prison" includes any lock-up house, police cell, or other duly authorised place of detention for persons in custody; "property" includes every description of movable and immovable property, money, debts, and legacies, and all deeds and instruments relating to or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 17 evidencing the title or right to any property, or giving a right to recover or receive any money or goods, and also includes not only the property originally in the possession or under the control of any person, but also any property into or for which it has been converted or exchanged, and anything acquired by the conversion or exchange, whether immediately or otherwise; "public way" means any highway, market-place, square, street, bridge, or other way lawfully used by the public; "expressions referring to "the public" refer not only to citizens of Guyana within the jurisdiction of the Courts of Guyana, but also to the persons inhabiting or using any particular place, or any number of those persons, and also to any indeterminate persons who happen to be affected by the conduct or matter with reference to which those expressions are used; "railway" includes a tramway worked by steam or electric power; "summary conviction offence" means any offence punishable on summary conviction before the court, and includes any matter in respect of which the court can make an order in the exercise of its summary jurisdiction; "town" includes the City of Georgetown, the towns of New Amsterdam, Bartica, and Morawhanna, towns and local government districts established under section 33 of the Municipal and District Councils Act and any village under the Local Government Act, having a population of more than three thousand inhabitants, which may be declared, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 18 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) by an order of the Minister, to be a town, for the purposes of this Act; "valuable security" includes any order or other security whatsoever, entitling or evidencing the title of any person to any share or interest in any public stock or fund, whether of Guyana or of any other place in the Commonwealth, or of any foreign state or country, or in any fund of any body corporate, society, or company, whether in the United Kingdom, or in Guyana, or in any other place in the Commonwealth, or in any foreign state or country, or to any deposit in any bank, and also includes any debenture, deed, bond, bill, note, warrant, order (including any post office money order and any postal order), or other security whatsoever for money or for the payment of money, whether of Guyana, or of any other place in the Commonwealth, or of any foreign state or country, and any document of title to goods or lands as hereinbefore defined. Reference to 3. In this Act, expressions referring to the public shall ‚the public‛. be deemed to refer not only to citizens of Guyana within the [24 of 1969] jurisdiction of the courts, but also to the persons inhabiting or using any particular place or any number of those persons, and also to any indeterminate persons who happen to be affected by the conduct or matter with reference to which those expressions are used. Town 4. For the purposes of this Act, any member of a constable to town constabulary shall, within the limits of the town for have powers which he acts as a constable, have all the powers and of police, etc. authorities of a police or rural constable in relation to offences [24 of 1969] which are by this Act specially declared to be offences in towns. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 19 PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS TITLE 1 Introductory Provisions Acts done 5. Where an act which, if done wholly within the partly within and partly jurisdiction of a magistrate‘s court, would be a beyond the summary conviction offence cognizable in that court, is jurisdiction. done partly within and partly beyond that court‘s jurisdiction, every person who, within the jurisdiction, does or abets any part of that act shall be liable to be proceeded against and convicted and punished for the offence in the same manner as if the act had been done wholly within the jurisdiction. Presumption 6. Where any person is charged with an offence of age of child. under this Act, or under any other written law for the time being in force, in respect of a child who is alleged in the complaint to be under any specified age, and the child appears to the court to be under that age, the child shall, for the purposes of this Act or of that other written law, be deemed to be under that age, unless the contrary is proved. Saving of right 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to take away of punishment. or affect the right of the guardian or teacher of any child to administer reasonable and proper punishment to the child. Saving of 8. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the jurisdiction of High Court. criminal jurisdiction of the High Court. Saving of 9. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to take away offences or affect the jurisdiction of a magistrate or justice of the constituted peace in respect of offences constituted by any other written by other law for the time being in force and not specified in this Act. written law. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 20 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Saving of 10. Where a summary conviction offence punishable liability under under this Act is also punishable under any other written other written law. law for the time being in force, the offence may be prosecuted and punished either under this Act or under the other written law, but so that no person is punished twice for the same offence. Restrictions on 11. Nothing in this Act shall authorise the court jurisdiction in to hear and determine any complaint for a summary respect of conviction offence under this Act in which any question in questions of title or good faith arises as to the title to any immovable property or insolvency. any interest therein or accruing therefrom, or as to any bankruptcy or insolvency, or as to any execution under the process of the High Court. TITLE 2 Punishments Punishments 12. The following punishments may be inflicted under under the Act. this Act, namely, fine, payment of compensation for injury done, whipping, flogging, and imprisonment. Infliction of 13. The court may, in its discretion, adjudge any lesser fine. person convicted before it of a summary conviction offence punishable by a fine under this Act to any less penalty than the penalty prescribed by this Act for that offence. Award of 14. The Court may, in its discretion, on the compensation application of the complainant adjudge any person to person convicted before it of a summary conviction offence to injured. make compensation, exceeding forty-nine thousand dollars [4 of 1972 21 of 1978 but not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to any 1 of 1989 person who suffers any injury (including loss of or damage 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] to his property) as a result of the commission of the offence; and any sum so adjudged shall be regarded and dealt with L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 21 c. 7:01 in all respects as if it were a sum awarded by a judgment of the court under the Summary Jurisdiction (Petty Debt) Act: Provided that where the conviction is in respect of an offence committed prior to the coming into operation of this section the compensation awarded shall not exceed that amount which the court could have awarded at the time of the commission of the offence. Effect of 15. Where any person who suffers any injury as payment of aforesaid as a result of the commission of a summary compensation. conviction offence receives compensation for the injury [21 of 1978] under the order of the court, the receipt of that compensation shall be a bar to any action for the same injury. Saving of civil 16. Subject to section 15, nothing in this Act shall affect action. the right of action of any person in respect of any injury sustained by him or his property by the commission of a summary conviction offence. Reduction of 17. Where any person is convicted of a summary term of conviction offence punishable by imprisonment under this imprisonment. Act, the court may, in its discretion, adjudge him to undergo any less term of imprisonment than the term prescribed by this Act for the offence. Consecutive 18. (1) Where the court adjudges any person to sentences of undergo a term of imprisonment for a summary conviction imprisonment. [6 of 1937] offence, and he is already undergoing, or has been at the same sitting of the court adjudged to undergo imprisonment for another offence, the court may direct that that imprisonment shall commence at the expiration of the imprisonment which he is then undergoing, or has been so previously adjudged to undergo as aforesaid. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 22 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (2) In this section the expression ‘imprisonment’ shall include cases where imprisonment is imposed by a court on any person with or without the option of a fine or in respect of the non-payment of any sum of money or for failing to do or abstaining from doing any act or thing required to be done or left undone. TITLE 3 Abetment and Attempt Abetment of 19. Every person who aids, abets, counsels, causes, or summary procures, the commission of any summary conviction conviction offence shall be liable to be proceeded against and convicted offence. for that offence, either together with the principal offender or before or after his conviction, and shall be liable, on conviction, to the same punishment as that to which the principal offender is liable by law. Attempt and 20. Subject to the express provisions of any statute for incitement to the time being in force in that behalf, every person who commit summary attempts to commit, or incites any other person to commit, conviction any summary conviction offence shall be liable to one-half of offence. the punishment prescribed for that offence by the statute creating it. PART II OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON TITLE 4 Assault and Similar Offences Assault. 21. Everyone who unlawfully assaults any person [1 of 1989 8 of 1970 shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars 10 of 1998] nor more than ten thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 23 Aggravated 22. Where anyone is convicted of an assault upon any assault. person, and the assault is, in the opinion of the court, of such [1 of 1989 19 of 1990 an aggravated nature that it cannot be sufficiently punished 8 of 1997 under the last preceding section, the offender shall be liable 10 of 1998] to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Ill-treatment 23. Everyone who, being the guardian of any child— and neglect of child. (a) wilfully ill-treats, neglects, abandons, [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 or exposes the child, in a manner 10 of 1998] likely to cause it unnecessary suffering or injury to its health; or (b) when the child is ill and needs attendance or provision, and being able to procure or provide it, wilfully neglects to procure for the child the attendance of a duly qualified medical practitioner, or to provide the child with suitable medicines and medical comforts and with proper food, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months: Provided that no one shall be liable to be prosecuted under this section except by a police constable. 24. [Repealed by Act. No. 7 of 2010]. 25. Everyone who, being masked or otherwise Assault by person disguised, unlawfully assaults any person shall be liable to a when disguised. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 24 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) [1 of 1989 fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars 10 of 1998] nor more than fifteen thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Assaulting or threatening 26. Everyone who— violence to purchaser of (a) assaults, or uses any threat of produce. [1 of 1989 violence to, any person, with intent to 8 of 1997 deter or hinder him from buying, 10 of 1998] selling, or otherwise disposing of, or to compel him to buy, sell or otherwise dispose of, any corn, rice, or other grain, flour, cocoa, coffee, plantains, bananas, yams, tannias, cassava, or sweet potatoes; or (b) assaults, or uses any threat of violence to, any person having the care or charge of any corn, rice, or other grain, flour, cocoa, coffee, plantains, bananas, yams, tannias, cassava, or sweet potatoes, whilst on the way to or from any town or other place, with intent to stop or hinder the conveyance thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars or to imprisonment for ten months. Wrongful 27. (1) Subject to this section, any person who interference wrongfully and with a view to compelling any other person with exercise to do any act which he is not legally bound to do or to of right. [6 of 1942 abstain from doing any act which he has a legal right to 1 of 1989 do— 8 of 1997 (a) uses violence to or intimidates such 10 of 1998] other person or his wife or children, or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 25 injures his property; or (b) persistently follows such other person about from place to place; or (c) hides any tools, clothes or other property owned or used by such other person, or deprives him of or hinders him in the use thereof; or (d) watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place; or (e) follows such other person in a disorderly manner in or through any street, road, yard or dam, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and to imprisonment for eighteen months. Peaceful (2) It shall be lawful for one or more persons, but picketing. not more than three in any one place at any one time, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of any trade union registered under the Trade Unions Act, or of an individual employer or c. 98:03 firm, in contemplation or in furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person works or carries on business: Provided that— (a) they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or (b) communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person to L.R.O. 1/2012 L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 26 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) work or abstain from working; (b) they do not so attend in such manner as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace; (c) they do not commit any act of trespass; and (d) when so acting, they wear a distinctive badge or armlet bearing the word ‚Picket‛ inscribed in legible characters. (3) In this section— "intimidate" means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable 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; "injury" includes injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment or other source of income, and includes any actionable wrong; "trade dispute" means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non- employment, or terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any person; " workman" includes any person employed in trade or industry, whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom a trade dispute arises. L.R.O. 1/2012 L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 27 Assault with 28. Everyone who— intent to resist lawful apprehension. (a) assaults any person with intent to [ 1 of 1989 resist or prevent the lawful 8 of 1997 apprehension or detainer of himself or 10 of 1998] of any other person, or to rescue anyone from lawful custody; or (b) assaults, obstructs, or resists any peace officer acting in the execution of his duty, or any person acting in aid of that officer; or (c) assaults, obstructs, or resists any person acting in the lawful execution of any process issued out of a magistrate‘s court against any movable or immovable property, or with intent to rescue any movable property taken under that process or under any lawful distress, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Assault on 29. Everyone who— judicial officer or Minister. (a) assaults any judicial officer acting in [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 the execution of the duties of his 10 of 1998] office; or (b) assaults any minister of religion acting in the execution of the duties of his office; or (c) assaults any person with any deadly or dangerous instrument or means L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 28 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months, or, if the person has been convicted of a similar assault within the two years immediately preceding that conviction, to imprisonment for two years four months. Causing actual 30. Everyone who – bodily harm and unlawful wounding. (a) unlawfully assaults any person so as to [1 of 1989 cause him actual bodily harm; or 10 of 1998] (b) unlawfully and maliciously wounds, or inflicts any grievous bodily harm upon, any person, whether with or without any weapon or instrument, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Where offence 31. If, on the hearing of any complaint for an is accompa- offence under this Title, the court finds that offence to have nied by been accompanied by any attempt to commit felony, or is of attempt to commit opinion that the case is, from any other circumstance, a fit indictable subject for prosecution by indictment, the court shall abstain offence. from any adjudication thereupon, and shall deal with the matter in all respects in the same manner as if the court had no authority finally to hear and determine it. PART III OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY AND RIGHTS ARISING OUT OF CONTRACTS TITLE 5 Wilful Trespass to Property Interpretation 32. In this Title, the term ‚owner‛ includes any tenant of term in L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 29 Title 5. or occupier, and the attorney or agent of any owner as thus defined. Acts 33. Everyone who— constituting wilful trespass. (a) unlawfully enters, in an insulting, annoying, or threatening manner, upon any land, yard, garden, stelling, house, or premises, or in any canal, trench, or pond, belonging to another; or (b) unlawfully enters upon or in that land or other place after having been forbidden by the owner thereof, or his servant, to do so; or (c) unlawfully enters and remains upon or in that land or other place after having been required by the owner thereof, or his servant, to depart therefrom; or (d) having lawfully entered upon or in that land or other place, misconducts himself by behaving thereon in an insulting, annoying, or threatening manner; or (e) having lawfully entered upon or in that land or other place, remains thereon after having been lawfully required by the owner thereof, or his servant, to depart therefrom, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 30 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Wilful trespass 34. (1) Everyone who wilfully trespasses on any land, notwithstand- yard, garden, stelling, house, or premises, or in any canal, ing notice. trench, or pond, belonging to another, on or near to which there is posted up, in one or more conspicuous place or places, a notice, in large legible letters, forbidding in general terms all persons to trespass and warning them that they will be prosecuted for so doing without leave of the owner of the land, yard, garden, stelling, house, premises, canal, trench, or pond, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser. (2) That trespasser may be seized and detained by the owner or his servant, or by any person whom the owner or the servant may call to his assistance and shall be taken without delay before a magistrate or to a police station, to be dealt with according to law. Trespass to 35. (1) Everyone found between the hours of seven land by night. o‘clock in the evening of the day and five o‘clock in the morning of the next day in any yard, garden, farm, or cultivated lands, or in any interval between cultivated lands other than a path permitted to be used by the general public, or in or about the works of any sugar estate, who, on being taken before the magistrate of the district in which he is so found, fails to satisfy the magistrate that he had some reasonable cause or excuse for being in the place where he was so found, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser. (2) That trespasser may be seized and detained by any police or other constable, or by the owner of the land or premises on or near which the trespasser is found, or his servant, or by any person whom the police or other constable, or the owner or servant calls to his assistance and shall be taken without delay before a magistrate or to a police station, to be dealt with according to law. Mode of 36. If the trespasser, at the time of his trespassing, dealing with has, or is in possession of, any sugar-cane, coffee, article found in L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) 31 possession of plantain, banana, fruit, or vegetable product similar in wilful kind to any growing or being in or upon the land, yard, trespasser. garden, house, or premises on which the trespass is committed, or of any fish similar in kind to any then or immediately theretofore in the canal, trench, or pond in which the trespass is committed, the owner or his servant aforesaid may seize and detain the sugar-cane, coffee, plantain, banana, fruit, or vegetable product, or fish, until the trespasser proves, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that it has not been taken or obtained out of or from the land, yard, garden, house, premises, canal, trench, or pond aforesaid; and in the event of a trespasser failing to give that proof, the article shall be delivered to the owner, to be by him disposed of as he thinks fit. Dealing with 37. If the trespasser carries, leads, or drives on the animal or thing land, yard, garden, stelling, house, or premises on which the brought on land by wilful trespass is committed any horse, mule, ass, or other animal, trespasser. or puts or places, or causes to be put or placed, on the land, yard, garden, stelling, house, or premises, any cart, wheelbarrow, or other vehicle, building, materials, tools, or implements of any description, timber, firewood, or other wood, or any other thing of whatever description, that horse, mule, ass, animal, cart, wheelbarrow, vehicle, building material, tool, implement, timber, firewood, wood, and thing may be seized and detained by the owner of the land, yard, garden, stelling, house, or premises, or by his servant; and, on complaint made and on proof, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that any person trespassing as aforesaid has carried, led, or driven on the land, yard, stelling, house, or premises, on which the trespass was committed the horse, mule, ass, or animal, or has put or placed or caused to be put or placed, on the land, yard, garden, stelling, house, or premises the cart, wheelbarrow, vehicle, building material, tool, implement, timber, firewood, wood, or thing, the magistrate shall order it to be publicly sold within ten days thereafter, and out of the L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 32 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) proceeds thereof shall pay the amount of any damage suffered by the owner by virtue of the trespass, and shall deduct the amount of any fine inflicted upon the trespasser, unless the amount of the damage and fine is sooner paid. Wilful trespass 38. (1) Every person who fastens any vessel, boat, with vessel on bateau, punt, corial, craft, raft, or float to any private private wharf stelling, wharf, land, or landing-place, or any part thereof, or notwithstand- brings, places, or puts any vessel, boat, bateau, punt, corial, ing notice. craft, raft, or float in any private trench or canal, whether used or not for drainage or otherwise, or puts or places any article whatsoever upon the stelling, wharf, land, or landing- place, or in or over the trench or canal, on or near to which there is posted up a notice, in large legible letters, forbidding in general terms all persons to trespass and warning them that they will be prosecuted for so doing, without leave of the owner of the stelling, wharf, land, landing-place, trench, or canal, or without some pressing necessity, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser. (2) That trespasser, vessel, boat, bateau, punt, corial, craft, raft, float, and article may be seized and detained by the owner or his servant, or by any person whom the owner or the servant calls to his assistance, and the trespasser shall be taken without delay before a magistrate or to a police station, to be dealt with according to law. (3) If any damage is done to the stelling, wharf, land, landing- place, trench, or canal, or if any fine is imposed on the trespasser, the magistrate shall order the vessel, boat, bateau, punt, corial, craft, raft, or float, to be publicly sold within ten days thereafter, and out of the proceeds thereof shall pay to the owner of the stelling, wharf, land, landing- place, trench, or canal the amount of the damage so done, and shall deduct the amount of any fine inflicted upon the trespasser, unless the amount of the damage and fine is sooner paid. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 33 Wilful trespass 39. (1) Everyone found in or upon, or entering in or on land upon, any land, whether covered with water or not, situate between high and low water between high water-mark and low water-mark upon the marks bank of any river, creek, or stream, or upon the sea-coast in notwithstand- front of any plantation, estate, or land, on or near to which ing notice and fishing there is posted up a notice, in large legible letters, forbidding therefrom. in general terms all persons to trespass and warning them that they will be prosecuted for so doing without leave of the owner of that plantation, estate, or land, who there destroys, ensnares, catches, or takes any fish, crab, or other animal, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser. (2) That trespasser may be seized and detained by the owner or his servant, or by any person whom the owner or the servant calls to his assistance, and shall be taken without delay before a magistrate or to a police station, to be dealt with according to law. (3) If the trespasser, at the time of his trespassing, has with him any vessel, boat, bateau, punt, corial, craft, raft, or float, or any seine, net, fishing-tackle, or other implement for destroying, ensnaring, catching, or taking fish, crabs, or other animals, that also may be seized and detained by the owner, servant, or person, and if the trespasser is convicted, the magistrate shall order the article to be publicly sold within ten days thereafter, and out of the proceeds thereof, shall pay the amount of any damage suffered by the owner by virtue of the trespass, and shall deduct the amount of any fine inflicted upon the trespasser, unless the amount of the damage and fine is sooner paid. (4) If the trespasser, at the time of his trespassing, has, or is in possession of, any fish, crab, or other animal, whether dead or alive, it may be seized by the owner, servant, or person and taken before the magistrate, who, if the trespasser is not able to prove that he caught or obtained the fish, crab, or other animal, at or from some place other L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 34 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) than that upon which he was found trespassing, shall order the fish, crab, or other animal to be delivered to the owner, to be by him disposed of as he thinks fit. Wilful trespass 40. (1) Everyone found in or upon, or entering in or on land upon, any land, whether covered with water or not, situate between high and low water- between high water-mark and low water-mark upon the marks bank of any river, creek, or stream, or upon the sea-coast in notwithstand- front of any plantation, estate, or land, on or near to which is ing posted up a notice, in large legible letters, forbidding in notice, and cutting wood general terms all persons to trespass and warning them that thereon. they will be prosecuted for so doing without leave of the owner of the plantation, estate, or land, who there cuts down, cuts up, or gathers any wood, timber, or tree, or any part of any wood, timber, or tree, whether growing or fallen, or digs up, removes, or carries away any soil, caddy, sand, or shells, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser. (2) That trespasser may be seized and detained by the owner, or his servant, or by any person, whom the owner or the servant calls to his assistance, and shall be taken without delay before a magistrate, or to a police station, to be dealt with according to law. (3) If the trespasser, at the time of his trespassing, has with him any vessel, boat, bateau, punt, corial, craft, raft, or float, or any axe, hatchet, cutlass, saw, or other tool or implement used for or capable of felling trees, or of cutting or splitting wood, or of digging, lifting up, removing, or carrying away any soil, caddy, sand, or shells, that also may be seized and detained by the owner, servant, or person, and, on complaint made for the trespass, the magistrate may order the article to be publicly sold within ten days thereafter, and out of the proceeds thereof shall pay the amount of any damage suffered by the owner by virtue of the trespass, and shall deduct the amount of any fine inflicted upon the trespasser, unless the amount of the damage and fine is sooner paid. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 35 (4) If the trespasser has ready for removal any wood, timber, tree, soil, caddy, sand, or shells, the same shall be forfeited and delivered over, on the order of the magistrate, to the owner, to be by him disposed of as he thinks fit. Saving of 41. No labourer or other person having or occupying certain rights any house or cottage, or any room therein on any plantation of pathway. or settlement, having an open path, or road, or way generally used leading from a public way to that house, cottage, or room, nor his family, relations, and visitors, shall be deemed a wilful trespasser or wilful trespassers, within the meaning of this Title, by reason of his or their passing or repassing along or upon the open path, or road, or way generally used. Penalty for 42. Everyone convicted of a wilful trespass under wilful trespass. this Title shall be liable to a fine of not less than five [4 of 1972 thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. 1of 1989 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] Injury to notice 43. (1) Everyone who pulls down, injures, removes or forbidding destroys any board or notice posted up, as mentioned in this trespassers. Title, for the purpose of forbidding and warning trespassers, [4 of 1972 1 of 1989 or obliterates any letter or figure thereon, shall be liable to a 8 of 1997 fine of n o t less than seven thousand five hundred dollars 10 f 1998] nor more than fifteen thousand dollars. (2) Out of the fine, when recovered, there shall be paid any expenses attending the restoration of the board or notice, and the amount of those expenses shall be determined by the magistrate. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 36 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Assistance in 44. Every police or rural constable shall assist in the apprehension apprehension and detention of any wilful trespasser of wilful trespasser. whenever called upon to do so by the owner, or by the servant of the owner, of the property on which the trespass takes place. Prevention of 45. (1) If anyone enters upon and uses or occupies squatting. any land belonging to another, without leave of the owner [4 of 1972 1 of 1989, thereof or without lawful authority for so doing, the 10 of 1998] magistrate of the district in which that land is situate may summon before the court the person so using or occupying the land to show cause why an order should not be made for his removal therefrom. (2) If on the hearing of the complaint, it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant has entered upon and used or occupied the land without leave or lawful authority for so doing, the court may make an order for the removal, by force if necessary, of the person from the land, and also of any building, animal, or thing which he has placed or has thereon. (3) The magistrate may also in addition, if he thinks fit, impose on the person a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars and a sentence of imprisonment for six months, and may order that the whole or any portion of the fine, if paid or recovered, shall be paid to the owner of the land. Making of 46. Every complaint for an offence under this Title complaint shall be made by the owner, or by the attorney or agent of the under Title 5. owner, of the property on or with respect to which the trespass or injury is committed or the use or occupation takes place: Provided that any manager or overseer employed on any plantation shall be deemed to be the agent of the owner L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 37 for the purposes of this section. TITLE 6 MALICIOUS INJURY TO PROPERTY Injury to Growing Things Injury to 47. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously cuts, growing trees breaks, barks, roots up, or otherwise destroys or damages the to amount not exceeding whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any $2,000. underwood, growing in any park, pleasure ground, garden, [1 of 1989 orchard, or avenue, or in any ground adjoining or 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] belonging to any dwelling-house, the injury done being to an amount exceeding one dollar but not exceeding two thousand dollars, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Injury to 48. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously cuts, growing trees elsewhere than breaks, barks, roots up, or otherwise destroys or damages the in park, to whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any amount not underwood, growing elsewhere than in any of the situations exceeding mentioned in the last preceding section, the injury done being $20,000. [1 of 1989 to an amount exceeding one dollar but not exceeding twenty 8 of 1997] thousand dollars, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Injury to trees 49. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously cuts, wherever breaks, barks, roots up, or otherwise destroys or damages the growing , to whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any amount not exceeding underwood, whosesoever growing, the injury done being to $20,000. an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, shall be [1 of 1989 liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] than twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months, and, on a second conviction for that offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for ten months, and, on a third or any subsequent conviction therefor, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 38 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Destroying 50. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously vegetable destroys, or damages with intent to destroy, any plant, root, product growing in fruit, or vegetable product growing in any garden, orchard, garden. nursery-ground, greenhouse, or conservatory shall be liable to [ 1 of 1989 a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than 8 of 1989 10 of 1998] twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for ten months, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction for that offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Destroying 51. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously vegetable destroys, or damages with intent to destroy, any fruit or any product cultivated root or plant used for the food of man or beast, or growing elsewhere for medicine, or for distilling, or for dyeing, or for or in the other than in course of any manufacture, and growing in any land, whether garden. open or enclosed, not being a garden, orchard, or nursery- [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 ground, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven 10 of 1998] thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars or to imprisonment for four months, and, on a second conviction for that offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for nine months, and, on a third or any subsequent conviction therefor, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Injury to Animals Poisoning and 52. (1) Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously— destroying fish. [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 (a) throws any substance poisonous to 10 of 1998] fish into any river, creek, or stream, for the purpose of poisoning, stupefying, taking, or destroying any fish; or (b) throws any substance poisonous to fish into any part of the sea, at the mouth of any river, creek, or stream, running into the sea, for the purpose of poisoning, stupefying, taking, or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 39 destroying any fish; or (c) turns or obstructs any river, creek, stream, or trench, for the purpose of taking or destroying any fish, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars: Provided that the magistrate may allow any relaxation of this enactment he thinks proper in the case of any Amerindian. (2) Everyone who uses dynamite or other explosive substance to catch or destroy fish, or so uses it as to render probable the destruction of fish in any of the rivers or creeks of Guyana shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of not less thirty-five thousand dollars nor more than seventy thousand dollars: Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the use of dynamite or other explosive substance in removing obstructions or in lawful mining in the rivers and creeks of Guyana. Injury to animal not 53. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously kills, being cattle. maims, or wounds any dog, bird, beast, or other animal, not [1 of 1989 being an animal mentioned in section 55, but being either the 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] subject of larceny at common law or ordinarily kept in a state of confinement or for any domestic purpose, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction for that offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Catching 54. Everyone who unlawfully catches, takes, or drives and any cattle from or out of any pasture, enclosure, stable, or using cattle other place, for the purpose of riding the animal, or of using it without L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 40 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) consent of in the carrying of any load or burden, or in the drawing of any owner. cart or carriage, or for the purpose of setting it loose or of [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 driving it about, or for any other unlawful purpose, without 10 of 1998] the consent of the owner or of the person entrusted with the charge of the animal, and without having any probable claim or pretence of title thereto, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars. Injury to cattle. 55. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously kills, [21 of 1932 maims, or wounds any horse, mare, gelding, colt, or filly, or 30 of 1954 any mule, or any ass, or any bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer, or calf, 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 or any ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb, or any goat or kid, or any 10 of 1998] boar, sow, barrow, hog, or pig, the value of the animal killed, maimed, or wounded, not exceeding forty thousand dollars, or causes any damage, not exceeding forty thousand dollars, to any animal aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Injury to other things. Injury to 56. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously cuts, fences, walls or breaks, throws down, or in any way destroys any fence or gates. paling, or any wall, stile, or gate, or any part thereof respectively, shall be liable to a fine of not less than three thousand dollars nor more than six thousand dollars, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction for the offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Injury to parts 57. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously— of electric or magnetic telegraph. (a) cuts, breaks, throws down, destroys, [1 of 1989 damages, or removes any battery, 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] machinery, wire, cable, post, or other thing whatsoever, being part of, or being used or employed in or about, any electric or magnetic telegraph or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 41 telephone, or in the working thereof; or (b) prevents or obstructs in any manner whatsoever the sending, conveyance, or delivery of any communication by that telegraph or telephone, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three months, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction for the offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Injury to 58. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously literary, scientific or destroys or damages any book, manuscript, picture, print, artistic work. statue, bust, or vase, or any other article or thing kept for the [1 of 1989 purposes of art, science, or literature, or as an object of 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] curiosity, in any museum, gallery, cabinet, library, or other repository, which is, either at all times, or from time to time, open for the admission of the public to view those articles or things, either by the permission of the proprietor thereof, or on the payment of money before entering the repository, or any picture, statue, monument, or other memorial of the dead, or painted glass or other ornament or work of art, in any church, chapel, temple, mosque, synagogue, meeting-house, or other place of divine worship, or in any building belonging to the State, or to any county, town, parish, or place, or to any college or school, or in any street, square, churchyard, or yard of any temple, mosque or synagogue, burial-ground, or public garden or ground, or any fountain, statue, or monument exposed to public view, or any ornament, railing or fence surrounding that fountain, statue or monument, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 42 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Injury to 59. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously fishing destroys or damages any net, crawl, pot, or other vessel or apparatus. apparatus of another, being or set in the sea or in any river, [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 creek, or stream, for the purpose of catching, taking or 10 of 1998] keeping turtle or fish, or any turtle or fish caught or being in any net, crawl, pot, or other vessel or apparatus of any other person, being or set as aforesaid, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. 60. Everyone who, being an artificer, workman, Injury to goods entrusted to journeyman, apprentice, servant, or labourer, unlawfully and worker thereon maliciously destroys or damages any goods, wares, work, or [21 of 1932 materials committed to his care and charge as artificer, 30 of 1954 1 of 1989 workman, journeyman, apprentice, servant or labourer, 8 of 1997 without the consent of the person by whom he is hired, 10 of 1998] retained, or employed, the injury done being to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three months, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction for the offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Recovery of 61. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, or any damage to other law, everyone, who unlawfully and maliciously property. commits any damage, injury or spoil, to or upon any road, [29 of 2009] road structure, bridge, walkway, rail, traffic lights installation or equipment, drainage structures, including culverts and water supply structures or any movable or immovable property, either of a public or private nature, shall be liable to a fine of not less than thirty thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for ten months and bear the cost of the damage, injury, spoil to the property. Injury 62. Everyone who unlawfully and maliciously in without pecuniary any manner destroys or damages anything belonging to or in damage. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 43 the possession of another, or to which any other has the right of possession, notwithstanding that the thing is not of any pecuniary or saleable value, or of any value whatever, except to the person to whom it belongs, or in whose possession it is, or in whom exists the right of possession, shall, be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars, although no pecuniary damage to the thing has been committed by the person so offending. When offender 63. Every provision of this Title not hereinbefore so is in possession applied shall apply to every person who, with intent to injure of property injured. or defraud any other person, commits any of the offences mentioned in this Title, although the offender may be in possession of the property against or in respect of which the offence is committed. Malice against 64. Every punishment by this Title imposed on any owner of property not person who unlawfully and maliciously commits any offence necessary. against or in respect of property shall equally apply and be enforced whether the offence is committed from malice conceived against the owner of the property in respect of which it is committed or otherwise. Saving of act 65. Nothing shall be an offence under any provision done under contained in this Title unless it is done without legal colour of right. justification: Provided that where the offence consists in an injury to anything in which the offender has an interest, the existence of that interest, if partial, shall not prevent his act being an offence, and the fact that the thing injured belonged wholly to the offender shall not prevent his act being an offence, if it is done with intent to injure or defraud. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 44 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) TITLE 7 LARCENY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES Simple Larceny Simple larceny. 66. Everyone who commits simple larceny, the value [21 of 1932 of the property stolen not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, 6 of 1946 26 of 1954 shall be liable— 4 of 1972 1 of 1989 (a) where the offence is in respect of an 8 of 1997 explosive within the meaning of the 10 of 1998] c.16:06 Explosives Act, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; (b) where the offence is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for three years; and (c) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Larceny by a 67. Everyone who, being a bailee of any chattel, bailee. money, or valuable security, not exceeding sixty thousand [21 of 1932 dollars in value or amount, fraudulently takes or converts it to 6 of 1946 30 of 1954 his own use or to the use of any person other than the owner 4 0f 1972 thereof, although he does not break bulk or otherwise 1 of 1989 determine the bailment, shall be guilty of larceny, and on 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] conviction thereof on a complaint for larceny under the last preceding section, shall be liable— L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 45 (a) where the conviction is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and (b) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Larceny of Growing Things Stealing or 68. Everyone who steals, or cuts, breaks, roots up, or damaging otherwise destroys or damages with intent to steal, the whole things growing or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any in garden of value not underwood, growing in any park, pleasure-ground, garden, exceeding orchard, or avenue, or in any ground adjoining or belonging $30, 000 to any dwelling-house, the value of the article stolen or the [1 of 1989 amount of the injury done exceeding one dollar but not 8 of 1998 exceeding thirty thousand dollars, shall be liable to 10 of 1998] imprisonment for twelve months. Stealing or 69. Everyone who steals, or cuts, breaks, roots up, or damaging otherwise destroys or damages with intent to steal, the whole things growing or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any underwood, elsewhere than in garden of growing elsewhere than in any of the places mentioned in the value not last preceding section, the value of the article stolen or the exceeding amount of the injury done exceeding one dollar but not $30,000. [21 of 1932 exceeding thirty thousand dollars, shall be liable to 4 of 1972 imprisonment for twelve months. 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] Stealing or 70. Everyone who steals, or cuts, breaks, roots up, or damaging otherwise destroys or damages with intent to steal the whole things, or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any underwood, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 46 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) wherever wheresoever growing, the value of the article stolen, or the growing, of amount of the injury done, not exceeding thirty thousand value not exceeding dollars, shall be liable to a fine of not less than forty-five $30,000. thousand dollars nor more than ninety thousand dollars [1 of 1989 or to imprisonment for four months, and, on a second 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] conviction for that offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for six months, and, on a third or any subsequent conviction therefor, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Stealing or 71. Everyone who steals, or destroys or damages with damaging intent to steal, any plant, root, fruit, or vegetable product vegetable growing in any garden, orchard, pleasure-ground, nursery- product growing in ground, greenhouse, or conservatory shall be liable to a fine of garden. not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty or [1 of 1989 to imprisonment for ten months, and, on a second or any 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] subsequent conviction for that offence, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Praedial 72. (1) Everyone who steals or destroys or damages larceny. with intent to steal the product of any cultivated tree or plant, [4 of 1972 3 of 1983 where such product may be used for food, seed, tobacco, 1 of 1989 spice, stockfeed or any other purpose or made into beverage, 8 of 1997] fibre, medicine, ornament, lumber or anything of value, or the product of any other cultivated plant or tree declared by the Minister by notice in the Gazette, growing in any land, whether open or enclosed, which is not a garden, orchard, pleasure-ground, or nursery-ground, shall, in cases not within the next ensuing section be liable— (a) if the offence was committed in any district so specified as hereinafter mentioned, to a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars together with imprisonment for not less than twelve months nor more than three years, with or without L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 47 whipping or flogging as the court orders; and, (b) if the offence was committed elsewhere, to a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars together with imprisonment for not less than twelve months nor more than three years: Provided that the court may for any special reasons to be recorded in writing impose any lesser sentence than the sentence prescribed in the preceding provisions. (2) The Minister whenever, owing to the number of offences under the preceding subsection committed in any part of Guyana, it appears to him expedient to do so, may by order published in the Gazette declare that part of Guyana a specified district within the meaning of that subsection. Praedial 73. Everyone who— larceny, with aggravating circumstances (a) being armed with any dangerous or [3 of 1983 offensive weapon or instrument 10 of 1998]. commits the offence in the last preceding section mentioned; or (b) together with one or more other person or persons commits that offence; or (c) commits that offence and, at the time of or immediately before or immediately after so doing, wounds, beats, strikes, or uses any other personal violence or threatens to use personal violence to any person; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 48 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (d) commits that offence after a previous conviction thereof; or (e) is found by night armed with any dangerous offensive weapon or instrument and in company with another or others with intent to steal any of the articles mentioned in the last preceding section, shall be liable to imprisonment for not less than twenty four months nor more than forty months with or without whipping or flogging as the court orders: Provided that the court may for any special reasons to be recorded in writing impose any lesser sentence than the sentence prescribed in the preceding provisions. Larceny of 74. Everyone who steals, or destroys or damages with fruit, root or intent to steal, any fruit or any cultivated root or plant, other plant, other than those in than any mentioned in section 72 of this Act, used for the food section 72. of man or beast, or for medicine, or for distilling, or for [1 of 1989 dyeing, or for or in the course of any manufacture, and 8 of 1997 growing in any land, whether open or enclosed, which is not a 10 of 1998] garden, orchard, pleasure-ground, or nursery-ground, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for four months, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction therefor, shall be liable to imprisonment for eighteen months. Interpretation 75. For the purposes of the next succeeding section— of terms in next section. "raw gold" includes any substance or thing containing gold, or of which gold forms a part, whether it has been smelted or not; "precious stones" means rough or uncut precious stones; L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 49 "valuable minerals" means any mineral containing gold, silver, platinum, and any of the rarer metals, or any combination of them, together with some other metal or mineral matter in such proportion that the gold, silver, platinum and rarer metal or combination of them is or was of greater value than the baser metal or mineral matter in which it is or was contained. Stealing of raw 76. (1) Everyone who— gold, precious stones, (a) steals, or severs from any land with valuable intent to steal, any raw gold, precious minerals, petroleum, stones or valuable minerals; or balata, rubber and the like (b) severs from any land with intent to [1 of 1989 10 of 1998]. steal any bauxite; or (c) abstracts from any land, with intent to steal, any petroleum, asphalt, manjak, or any substance of a like nature; or (d) bleeds any growing tree with intent to steal rubber, balata, gum, or any substance of a like nature, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Entering land (2) Everyone who enters any land with intent to do with intent so any act which is by the preceding subsection made an offence, to steal. [10 of 1998] shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. (3) Where an offence is charged under subsection (1) or subsection (2) and the evidence discloses the commission of an offence under subsection (2) or subsection (1) respectively, the accused person shall not beentitled to be acquitted, but he may be convicted of that offence and punished accordingly. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 50 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Killing house- 77. Everyone who unlawfully and wilfully kills, dove or pigeon wounds, or takes any house-dove or pigeon, in circumstances [1 of 1989 not amounting to larceny at common law, shall, on conviction 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] thereof, be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. Taking fish in 78. Everyone who unlawfully and wilfully takes or water in destroys any fish in any water which runs through, or is in, private land any land adjoining or belonging to the dwelling-house of any [1 of 1989 person, who is the owner of the water or has a right of fishery 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] therein, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars. Taking fish in 79. Everyone who unlawfully and wilfully takes or other water. destroys any fish in any water not such as mentioned in the [1 of 1989 last preceding section, but which is private property or in 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] which there is any right of private fishery, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars. Saving of 80. Nothing in the last two preceding sections shall angling rights extend to any person angling between the beginning of the in the day-time last hour before sunrise and the expiration of the first hour [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 after sunset; but everyone who, by angling between the 10 of 1998] beginning of the last hour before sunrise and the expiration of the first hour after sunset, unlawfully and wilfully takes or destroys any fish in the first mentioned water, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars, and in the last mentioned water, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. Mode of 81. If anyone is at any time found fishing in dealing with contravention of the provisions of this Title, the owner of the person found ground, water, or fishery where the offender is so found, or fishing L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 51 contrary to his servant, or any person authorised by him, may demand this Title from the offender any rod, line, hook, seine, net, or other implement for taking or destroying fish then in the offender‘s possession, and, if the offender does not immediately deliver it up, may seize and take it from him for the use of the owner: Provided that any person angling in contravention of the provisions of this Title, between the beginning of the last hour before sunrise and the expiration of the first hour after sunset, from whom any implement used by anglers is taken, or by whom it is so delivered up, shall, by the taking or delivering up thereof, be exempt from the payment of any fine or damages for the angling. Larceny of 82. Everyone who— animal ordinarily kept in confinement (a) steals any bird, beast, or other animal, [1 of 1989 not being an animal mentioned in this 8 of 1997 Title but which is either the subject of 10 of 1998] larceny at common law or is ordinarily kept in a state of confinement for the purpose of observation, show, or amusement, or for any domestic purpose; or (b) wilfully kills that bird, beast, or animal, with intent to steal the carcass, skin, or any part thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor than forty thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for three months, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction therefor, to imprisonment for twelve months. Dog-stealing. 83. Everyone who steals a dog shall be liable to a fine [1 of 1989 of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 52 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Larceny of 84. Everyone who steals any horse, mare, gelding, certain animals of value not colt, or filly, or mule, or ass, or bull, cow, ox, steer, heifer, or exceeding calf, or ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb, or goat or kid, or boar, sow, $60,000. barrow, hog, or pig, the value of the animal stolen not [21 of 1932 30 of 1954 exceeding sixty thousand dollars, shall be liable to 4 of 1972 imprisonment for three years. 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] Killing those 85. Everyone who wilfully kills any animal animals with intent to steal mentioned in the last preceding section, with intent to steal carcass. the carcass, skin, or any part thereof, the value of the animal [21 of 1932 so killed not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, shall be liable 30 of 1954 4 of 1972 to imprisonment for three years. 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] Miscellaneous Larcenies Damaging fence 86. Everyone who steals, or cuts, breaks, throws with intent to down, or in any way destroys with intent to steal, any fence or steal paling, or any wall, stile or gate, or any part thereof [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 respectively, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty 10 of 1998] thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction therefor, to imprisonment for twelve months. Larceny from 87. Everyone who steals any chattel, money, or the person to valuable security from the person of another, the value or amount not amount of the chattel, money, or valuable security not exceeding $60,000. exceeding sixty thousand dollars, shall be liable to [21 of 1932 imprisonment for eighteen months. 30 of 1954 4 of 1972 1 of 1989 10 of 1998] L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 53 Larceny by 88. Everyone who steals any chattel or fixture, let to tenant or lodger of be used by him or her in or with any house or lodging, chattel or whether the contract has been entered into by him or her, or fixture let with by his wife or her husband, or by any person on behalf of him house or lodging. or her or his wife or her husband, the value of the chattel or [21 of 1932 fixture so stolen not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, shall be 30 of 1954 liable to imprisonment for twelve months. 4 of 1972 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] 89. Everyone who, being a clerk or servant, or being Larceny by clerk or employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a clerk or servant. servant, steals any chattel, money, or valuable security [21 of 1932 belonging to or in the possession or power of his master or 30 of 1954 4 of 1972 employer, the value or amount of the chattel, money, or 1 of 1989 valuable security not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, shall 8 of 1997 be liable— 10 of 1998] (a) where the offence is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and (b) in all other cases, to a fine of not less forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Servant taking 90. Any servant who, contrary to the orders of his his master‘s master, takes from his master‘s possession any corn, pulse, corn for roots, or other food, for the purpose of giving it, or of having animal. [1 of 1989 it given, to any horse or other animal belonging to or in the 8 of 1997 possession of his master, shall not, by reason thereof, be 10 of 1998] deemed guilty of, or be proceeded against for, stealing the corn, pulse, roots, or other food, but shall, on conviction of the offence be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars or to imprisonment for four months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 54 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Embezzlement Embezzlement 91. Everyone who, being a clerk or servant, or being by clerk or employed for the purpose, or in the capacity, of a clerk or servant. [21 of 1932 servant, fraudulently embezzles any chattel, money or 6 of 1946 valuable security delivered to, or received, or taken into 30 of 1954 possession, by him for, or in the name or on the account of, his 4 of 1972 1 of 1989 master or employer, or any part thereof, the value or amount 8 of 1997 of the chattel, money, or valuable security, or part thereof, not 10 of 1998] exceeding sixty thousand dollars, shall be deemed to have stolen it from his master or employer, although it may not have been received into the possession of his master or employer otherwise than by his actual possession, and shall be liable— (a) where the offence is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and (b) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Fraudulent Misappropriation Fraudulent 92. (1) Every person who— misappropriation. [24 of 1930 (a) being entrusted either solely or jointly L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 55 6 of 1946 with any other person with any 4 of 1972 property in order that he may retain in 1 of 1989 safe custody or apply, pay or deliver 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] for any purpose or to any person the property or any part or any proceeds thereof; or (b) having either solely or jointly with any other person received any property for or on account of any other person, fraudulently converts to his own use or benefit or to the use or benefit of any other person the property or any part or any proceeds thereof not exceeding sixty thousand dollars in value shall be liable— (i) where the conviction is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and (ii) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. (2) Nothing in this section shall apply to or affect any trustee on any express trust created by a deed or will or any mortgagee of any property, movable or immovable, in respect of any act done by the trustee or mortgagee inrelation to the property comprised in or affected by any such trust or mortgage. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 56 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Receiving Receiving 93. Everyone who receives any chattel, money, stolen valuable security, or other property, the stealing, taking, property. [21 of 1932 extorting, obtaining, embezzling, or otherwise disposing 6of 1946 whereof amounts to an offence under this Part or under Part 4 of 1972 III of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, and the value or 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 amount whereof does not exceed sixty thousand dollars, 10 of 1998] knowing it to have been so stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of, shall be liable— (a) where the offence is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and (b) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Unlawful Possession Possession of 94. (1) Everyone charged before the court with thing reason- having in his possession, or under his control, in any manner ably suspected or in any place, anything which is reasonably suspected of to have been stolen. having been stolen or unlawfully obtained, who does not give [6 of 1937 an account, to the satisfaction of the court, as to how he came 6 of 1946 thereby, shall be liable— 26 of 1954 4 of 1972 1 of 1989 (a) where the offence is in respect of an 8 of 1997 explosive within the meaning of the 10 of 1998] c. 16:06 Explosives Act, to a fine of not less than forty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars and to L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 57 imprisonment for three years; (b) where the offence is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and (c) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. (2) Where anyone is charged before the court with having in his possession, or under his control, in any manner or in any place anything which has been stolen or unlawfully obtained, or which is reasonably suspected to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained, and declares that he received the thing for someone else, or that he was employed as a carrier, agent, or servant, for someone else, the court is hereby authorised, and required if practicable, to cause every other person, and also, if necessary, every former or pretended purchaser or other person through whose possession the thing has passed, or who has had control thereof, to be brought before it and to examine witnesses upon oath touching the thing, and if it appears to the court that any person has had possession or control of the thing and had reasonable cause to believe it to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained, that person shall be deemed to have had possession or control of the thing at the time and place when and where it was found or seized, and shall be liable— (a) where the offence is in respect of a bicycle or any part thereof, to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 58 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (b) in all other cases, to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. (3) The possession of, or control by, a carrier, agent, or servant, shall be deemed to be the possession of, or control by, the person who employed the carrier, agent, or servant, to have or deal with the thing and that person shall be liable to the punishment herein mentioned. 95. If any animal, of whatever description, mentioned Unlawful possession of in this Title, or the carcass, head, skin, or any part of the animal or part animal, is found in circumstances of suspicion, in the thereof. possession or on the premises of any person, and if that [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 person does not satisfy the court that he came lawfully by the 10 of 1997] animal, or the carcass, head, skin, or other part of the animal, he shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Possession of 96. Everyone found in or upon any warehouse, shop, instrument for store, stelling, wharf, quay, or landing-place, or on the beach, obtaining or on board of any vessel or boat lying or being at anchor or liquor. otherwise, in any harbour, river, creek, or inlet in or adjacent [10 of 1998] to the land of Guyana, having in his possession any tube, quill, or other instrument, for the purpose of unlawfully obtaining any wine, spirits, or other liquors, or having in his possession any skin, bladder, or other material or utensil for the purpose of unlawfully secreting or carrying away the wine, spirits or other liquors, shall be liable to imprisonment for six months. Possession 97. If anything belonging to any vessel or boat in of thing distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, is found in from vessel in L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 59 distress or the possession of any person, or on his premises, with his wrecked. knowledge, and that person, being taken or summoned before [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 the court, does not satisfy the court that he came lawfully 10 of 1998] thereby, the thing shall, by order of the court, be forthwith delivered over to or for the use of the rightful owner thereof; and the offender shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. Offering for 98. If anyone offers or exposes for sale anything sale thing which has been unlawfully taken, or is reasonably suspected taken form so to have been taken, from any vessel or boat in distress, or vessel in distress or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, in that case any person to wrecked whom the thing is offered for sale, or any officer of customs or [1 of 1989 peace officer, may lawfully seize it, and shall with all 8 of 1997 10 of 1998 convenient speed take it or give notice of its seizure, to a magistrate; and if the person who has offered or exposed the thing for sale, being summoned to appear before the magistrate‘s court, does not appear and satisfy the court that he came lawfully thereby, it shall, by order of the court, be forthwith delivered over to or for the use of the rightful owner thereof, on payment of a reasonable reward, to be fixed by the court, to the person who seized it; and the offender shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. Obtaining by 99. Everyone who, by any false pretence, obtains false pretence from another any chattel, money, or valuable security, with not exceeding intent to defraud, the value or amount of the chattel, money, $60,000 in value. or valuable security not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, [21 of 1932 shall 6 of 1946 (a) where the offence is in respect of a 30 of 1954 bicycle or any part thereof, be liable to 4 of 1972 1 of 1989 a fine of not less than twenty thousand 8 of 1997 dollars or more than forty thousand 10 of 1998] dollars or to imprisonment for three years; and L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 60 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (b) in all other cases, be liable to a fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months: Provided that if, on the hearing of a complaint for that offence, it is proved that the defendant obtained the property in question in any manner amounting in law to larceny, he shall not by reason thereof be entitled to have the complaint dismissed; and where a person is charged with that offence, and the complaint is either dismissed on the merits or the defendant is convicted, the defendant shall not be liable to be afterwards prosecuted for larceny upon the same facts. Fraudulently 100. Every person who— obtaining credit and (a) in incurring any debt or liability, dealing with property with obtains credit by any false pretence or intent to by means of any other fraud; or defraud creditors. (b) with intent to defraud his creditors or [24 of 1930 4 of 1972 any of them, makes or causes to be 1 of 1989 made any gift, delivery, or transfer of, 8 of 1997 or any charge on, his property; or 10 of 1998] (c) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, conceals, removes, or disposes of, or causes to be concealed, removed or disposed of, any part of his property within four months before or at any time after the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for payment of money obtained against him or of any agreement with his L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 61 creditors with reference to his affairs, shall be liable to fine of not less than twenty thousand dollars nor more than forty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. False trade 101. (1) Every person who, when ordering in writing description. [24 of 1930 goods from within or without Guyana, makes, or causes to be 6 of 1937 made with intent to defraud, which intent shall be presumed 39 of 1955 unless the contrary is proved, any false representation as to 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 the name, nature, character or extent of the business which he 10 of 1998] carries on, or as to his place of business or address or the means by which he can be communicated with, shall be liable to a fine of not less than thirty thousand dollars nor more than sixty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. (2) In any proceedings under this section the receipt by any person of an order for goods or of any document contained in the same envelope as any such order or of any document under separate cover referring or relating to and purporting to be sent by the same person as the order and of the envelope in which any such order or document was received may be proved by evidence by affidavit subject to the following rules: (a) Every affidavit shall be in the form in

First Schedule the First Schedule or as near thereto as the circumstances permit. (b) Every affidavit shall be made on the oath of the person or one of the persons from whom the goods have been ordered, or of the manager of the business of such person or of the manager of the department of the business dealing with orders from abroad or the secretary of the L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 62 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) company carrying on the business. (c) There shall be exhibited to every affidavit— (i) the order for goods; (ii) any document which has been received by the person from whom the goods have been ordered and which purports to have come from the person ordering the goods and to refer or relate to such order. (d) Every affidavit shall be sworn— (i) in any Commonwealth country, before a judge of any superior court, the Mayor or chief magistrate of any city or corporate town or a notary public or a commissioner for oaths; (ii) in any foreign country, before a Guyanese consular officer or person discharging the functions thereof or a notary public: Provided that where any such affidavit purports to have been sworn before any notary public there shall be annexed to such affidavit a certificate under the hand and seal of a L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 63 Guyanese consular officer in such country to the effect that the person before whom the affidavit has been sworn is a notary public duly commissioned and practising in such country, or some portion thereof, and that full faith and credit can be given to his acts. (e) All Courts shall take judicial notice of the signature and seal of every person authorised by this section to administer oaths to affidavits. (3) Any complaint relating to an offence under this section shall be made within twelve months from the time when the matter of complaint arose. Larceny or 102. If anyone, being a member of any co-partnership, embezzlement or being one of two or more beneficial owners of any chattel, by partne money, valuable security, or other property, steals or [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 embezzles the chattel, money, valuable security, or other 10 of 1998] property of or belonging to the co-partnership or to the joint beneficial owners, its value or amount not exceeding sixty thousand dollars, he shall be liable to be proceeded against and convicted and punished for the offence as if he had not been or was not a member of the co-partnership or one of the beneficial owners. Advertising 103. Everyone who— reward for return of stolen (a) publicly advertises a reward for the property [1 of 1989 return of any stolen or lost property, 8 of 1997 and in the advertisement uses any 10 of 1998] words purporting that no questions will be asked; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 64 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (b) makes use of any word in the public advertisement purporting that a reward will be given or paid for any stolen or lost property, without seizing or making any inquiry after the person producing that property; or (c) promises or offers in the public advertisement to return to any person who has brought, or advanced money by way of loan upon, any stolen or lost property, the money so paid or advanced, or any other sum of money or reward for the return of that property; or (d) prints or publishes that advertisement, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars: Provided that no proceeding shall be taken under this section against the printer or publisher of any newspaper without the consent in writing of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Corruptly 104. Everyone who corruptly takes any money or taking money reward, either directly or indirectly, under pretence, or on to restore account, of aiding any person to recover any dog which has stolen dog [10 of 1998] been stolen, or is in the possession of any person who is not the owner thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. Interpretation 105. (1) In this section— [21 of 1932 23 of 1969 "agent" means anyone employed by or acting for another, 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 and includes a person serving under the State or L.R.O. 1/2012 10 of 1998] LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 65 under any corporation, municipal council, any council of a local government district established under the Municipal and c.28:01 District Councils Act, board of guardians, or local authority; "consideration" means valuable consideration of any kind; "principal" includes an employer; ‚public body‛ means any municipal council, any council of a local government district established under the Municipal and District Councils Act, also any board, commissioners, or other body having power to administer money raised by rates in pursuance of any public Act, and includes local and public authorities of all descriptions. Corrupt (2) If— transactions with agents. (a) an agent corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain, from anyone, for himself or for another, any gift or consideration as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do, or for having after the enactment of this section done or forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal‘s affairs or business, or for showing or forbearing to show favour or disfavour to anyone in relation to his principal‘s affairs or business; or (b) anyone corruptly gives, or agrees to give, or offers, any gift or consideration to an agent as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do, or for having after the enactment of this section done or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 66 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal‘s affairs or business, or for showing or forbearing to show favour or disfavour to anyone in relation to his principal‘s affairs or business; or (c) anyone knowingly gives to any agent, or if any agent knowingly uses with intent to deceive his principal, any receipt, account, or other document in respect of which the principal is interested, and which contains any statement which is false or erroneous or defective in any material particular, and which to his knowledge is intended to mislead the principal, he shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months. Onus of (3) Where in any proceedings under this section it is proof. proved that any money, gift, or other consideration, has been paid or given to or received by a person in the employment of the State or any Government department or public body, the money, gift or consideration, shall be deemed to have been paid or given and received corruptly as the inducement or reward mentioned in this section unless the contrary is proved. Prosecution of (4) A prosecution for an offence under this section offences. shall not be instituted without the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 67 TITLE 8 FORGERY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES Sending false 106. Everyone who, with intent to aggrieve or annoy telegram; another – signing (a) knowingly sends any false telegram to without authority. anyone; or (b) signs the name of anyone to any petition, prospectus, or testimonial, or to any letter or document containing a complaint as to the conduct of any person, knowing that he has no authority for so doing, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Title. Certificates as to Character or Employment False person- 107. Everyone who— ation of master, or giving (a) falsely personates any master or forged or counterfeit the executor, administrator, wife, character. relation, housekeeper, steward, agent or servant of the master; or (b) either personally or in writing, gives any false, forged, or counterfeit character to anyone offering himself to be hired as a servant into the service of any person, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Title. Giving false 108. Everyone who knowingly and wilfully pretends certificate or falsely asserts, in writing, that a servant has been hired or as to retained for any period of time whatsoever, or in any station L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 68 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) service or capacity whatsoever, other than that for or in which he has hired or retained the servant in his service or employment or for the service of any other person, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Title. Making false 109. Everyone who knowingly and wilfully pretends or statement as to falsely asserts, in writing, that any servant was discharged, or servant‘s left his service, at any other time than that at which the servant service. was discharged or actually left his service, or that the servant had not been hired or employed in any previous service, contrary to truth, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Title. Offering for 110. Everyone who— service under false pretence. (a) when offering himself as a servant, falsely pretends or asserts that he has served in any service in which he has not actually served, or uses a false, forged, or a counterfeit certificate of his character, or in any wise adds to, alters, effaces, or erases any word, date, matter, or thing contained in or referred to in any certificate given to him by his last or former actual master, or by any person duly authorised by that master to give it; or, (b) having before been in service, when offering himself as a servant in any service w hatsoever, falsely pretends or asserts that he has not been hired or retained in any previous service as a servant; or, (c) when offering himself as a servant in any service whatsoever, gives a false name, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 69 shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Title. Giving false or 111. Everyone who, either personally or in writing, counterfeit gives any false, forged, or counterfeit character, or makes character for general or gives any false representation or assurance concerning purposes. or relating to the character, conduct, credit, or ability of another, to the intent or purpose that that other may obtain any situation either in the public service, or in the service of any corporate body or of any private person, or any licence to be granted under the provisions of any statute, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Title. Indemnifica- 112. Any servant guilty of an offence against this Title tion of offender who, before any complaint has been made against him for discovering his the offence, discovers and informs against anyone concerned accomplice. with him in any offence aforesaid, so that that offender is convicted of the offence, shall thereupon, if the court thinks fit, be discharged and indemnified of, from and against all penalties to which, at the time of giving the information, he might be liable under this Title for his own offence. Penalty for 113. Every person guilty of an offence against this offence against Title shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand Title 8. [1of 1989 dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] TITLE 9 FALSE COIN Interpretation 114. (1) In this Title— of terms in Title 9. [15 of 1937 ‚current gold or silver coin‛ includes any gold or silver coin 0.15/1970] coined in any mint belonging to the Government or the Bank of Guyana or for or on behalf of the Government or the Bank of Guyana, or lawfully current by virtue of any law in force in Guyana or in any other part of the Commonwealth, or lawfully L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 70 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) current in any foreign country; "copper coin" includes any coin of any metal or mixed metal (not being a gold or silver coin) coined in any mint belonging to the Government or the Bank of Guyana or for or on behalf of the Government or the Bank of Guyana, or lawfully current by virtue of any law in force in Guyana or in any other part of the Commonwealth, or lawfully current in any foreign country; "false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin" includes any of the current coin which has been gilt, silvered, washed, coloured, or cased over, or in any manner altered, so as to resemble, or be apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current coin of a higher denomination; "current coin" includes any coin coined in any mint belonging to the Government or the Bank of Guyana or for or on behalf of the Government or the Bank of Guyana, or lawfully current by virtue of any law in force in Guyana or in any other part of the Commonwealth, or lawfully current in any foreign country. (2) The provisions in this Title other than section 118 shall apply in relation to foreign coin as they apply in relation to the coin of Guyana. Defacing coin 115. Everyone who defaces any current gold, silver, or by marks. copper coin by stamping thereon any name, word, number, or other mark, whether the coin is or is not thereby diminished or lightened, shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 71 Uttering 116. Everyone who tenders, utters, or puts off any defaced coin. current gold, silver, or copper coin which has been defaced [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 by stamping thereon any name, word, number, or other 10 of 1998] mark, whether the coin has or has not been thereby diminished or lightened, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars: Provided that no proceeding shall be taken against any person under this section without the consent in writing of the Director of Public Prosecutions. Mode of 117. (1) Where any coin is tendered as current gold or dealing with silver coin to any person who suspects the coin to be suspected gold diminished otherwise than by reasonable wearing or to be or silver coin when tendered counterfeit, that person may cut, break, bend, or deface the in payment. coin. [15 of 1937] (2) If any coin so cut, broken, bent, or defaced, appears to be diminished otherwise than by reasonable wearing or to be counterfeit, the person tendering the coin shall bear the loss thereof; but if the coin is of due weight and appears to be lawful coin, the person so cutting, breaking, bending, or defacing it is hereby required to receive it at the rate for which it was coined. (3) Any dispute which may arise under this section shall be heard and finally determined in a summary manner by a magistrate, who is hereby empowered to examine upon oath as well the parties as any other person in order to enable him to arrive at the decision of the dispute. (4) The Accountant General and every district commissioner are hereby respectively required to cut, break, or deface, or cause to be cut, broken, or defaced, every piece of counterfeit or unlawfully diminished gold or silver coin tendered to them respectively in payment of any part of the L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 72 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) revenues of Guyana. Mode of 118. (1) When any coin of Guyana is below the current dealing with weight or is withdrawn, as provided by the Bank of Guyana gold coin below weight. Act, everyone shall, by himself or others, cut, break, or deface [0.15/1970] any such coin tendered to him in payment, and the person c.85:02 tendering it shall bear the loss. (2) If any coin cut, broken, or defaced in pursuance of this section is not below the current weight, or has not been called in by any proclamation, the person cutting, breaking, or defacing it shall receive it in payment according to its denomination. (3) Any dispute which may arise under this section shall be heard and finally determined in a summary manner by a magistrate, who is hereby empowered to examine upon oath as well the parties as any other person in order to the decision of the dispute. Mode of 119. (1) Anyone who finds or discovers in any place dealing with whatsoever or in the custody or possession of any person counterfeit coin having it without lawful authority or excuse, any false or when counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to discovered. [15 of 1937] resemble or pass for, any current gold, silver, or copper coin, or any instrument, tool, or engine whatsoever, adapted and intended for making or counterfeiting that coin, or any filings or clippings, or any gold or silver bullion, or any gold or silver in dust, solution, or otherwise, which has been produced or obtained by diminishing or lightening any current gold or silver coin, may seize, and he is hereby required to seize, the same, and to carry it forthwith before some magistrate. (2) Where it is proved, on the oath of a credible person, before a magistrate, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any person has been concerned in counterfeiting L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 73 c 8:01 current gold, silver, or copper coin, or other coin mentioned in this Title or in Title 18 of the Criminal Law (Offences) Act, or has in his custody or possession any false or counterfeit coin or any instrument, tool, or engine, of whatever description, adapted and intended for the making or counterfeiting thereof, or any other machine used or intended to be used for making or counterfeiting that coin, or any filings, clippings, or bullion, or any gold or silver in dust, solution, or otherwise aforesaid, any magistrate, by warrant under his hand, may cause any place whatsoever belonging to, or in the occupation or under the control of, the suspected person to be searched, either in the day or in the night; and may, if any such false or counterfeit coin, or instrument, tool, or engine, or machine, or filings, clippings, or bullion, or gold or silver in dust, solution, or otherwise, as aforesaid is or are found in any place so searched, cause the same to be seized and taken forthwith before some magistrate. (3) Where any false or counterfeit coin, or instrument, tool, or engine, or machine, or filings, clippings, or bullion, or gold or silver in dust, solution, or otherwise, aforesaid, is or are, in any case whatsoever, seized and taken before a magistrate, he shall, if necessary, cause the matter to be secured for the purpose of being produced in evidence against any person prosecuted for any offence relating to coin. (4) All the false and counterfeit coin, and instruments, tools, and engines, and machines, and filings, clippings, and bullion, and gold and silver in dust, solution, or otherwise, aforesaid, after they have been produced in evidence or when they have been seized and are not required to be produced in evidence, shall forthwith be delivered up to the Accountant General or to any person authorised by him to receive them. (5) Where anything mentioned in this section is seized and taken before a magistrate, every person in whose L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 74 Cap. 8:02 ummary Jurisdiction (Offences) custody or possession the thing is found shall at the same time be apprehended and taken before the magistrate, to be dealt with according to law. Proof of falsity 120. Where it is necessary on the hearing of any of coin complaint made under this Title, to prove any coin produced in evidence to be false or counterfeit, it shall be sufficient to prove the coin to be false or counterfeit by the evidence of any credible witness. 121. Every offence of tendering, uttering, or putting When offence of tendering off, or of offering to utter or put off, any false or counterfeit uttering and coin, against the provisions of this Title, shall be deemed to putting off be complete, although the coin so tended, uttered, or put off, complete. or offered to be uttered or put off, is not in a fit state to be uttered, or the counterfeiting thereof is not finished or perfected. Criminal 122. Where the having any matter in the custody or possession possession of any person is mentioned in this Title, it shall under Title 9. include, not only the having of it by himself in his personal custody or possession, but also the knowingly and wilfully having it in the actual custody or possession of any other person, and also the knowingly and wilfully having it in any dwelling-house or other building, lodging, apartment, field, or other place, open or enclosed, whether belonging to or occupied by himself or not, and whether the matter is so had for his own use or benefit or for that of anyone else. PART IV OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER TITLE 10 RIOTOUS DISTURBANCES Proclamation 123. (1) If any riotous disturbance or other serious of disturbed L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 75 district. breach of the public peace occurs, or appears to be likely to occur, in any part of Guyana, the President may, by proclamation, declare that the provisions of this Title shall be in force in that part of Guyana (hereinafter referred to as ‚a proclaimed district‛ as from the date of the proclamation. (2) The limits of the proclaimed district shall be specified in the proclamation. (3) The proclamation may relate to two or more parts of Guyana. Proclamation 124. A copy of any proclamation made under this to be laid before Title shall be laid before the National Assembly at the National Assembly‘s next sitting after it is made. Assembly. Revocation of 125. A proclamation made under this Title may at any proclamation. time be revoked by the President. Destroying or 126. Everyone who, in a proclaimed district, destroys, defacing tears, or in any manner defaces any proclamation, placard, or proclamation. [1 of 1989 notice issued and posted up in a proclaimed district by any 8 of 1997 duly constituted authority shall be liable to a fine of not less 10 of 1998] than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months. Assembling in 127. If any persons, to the number of five or more, disorderly assemble together in a disorderly manner in any public manner and refusing to way or public place in a proclaimed district, or in any disperse. place adjacent to that way or place, each of those persons [1 of 1989 who refuses to disperse, when required to do so by any peace 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] officer, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for ten months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 76 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Offences in 128. Everyone who, in a proclaimed district— proclaimed district. [1 of 1989 (a) breaks and enters, or attempts to 8 of 1997 break and enter, any shop, store, 10 of 1998] dwelling-house, outhouse, factory, or other building or erection, of whatever description; or (b) in company with four or more other persons, unlawfully and maliciously destroys or damages anything in any shop or other building aforesaid; or (c) throws any stone or other thing at any shop or other building aforesaid; or (d) in company with four or more other persons, in any public way or public place, assaults any other person; or (e) not being a person duly authorised in that behalf, in any public way or public place, carries any deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument whatsoever, or any bludgeon, or stick exceeding half an inch in diameter; or (f) in any public way or public place, or in any place adjacent thereto, makes use of any abusive, insulting, or provoking language, or any language tending to a breach of the peace; or (g) incites any other person to commit any offence hereinbefore in this Title mentioned, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 77 shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Proclamation 129. (1) The President may by proclamation order the that retail retail spirit shops, or any of them, in a proclaimed district to spirit shops be be closed and to be kept closed during any period to him closed [1 of 1989 seeming fit. 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] (2) If any retail spirit shop is not closed and kept closed in accordance with the proclamation, the owner or occupier thereof shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars for every day during which the shop is not closed as aforesaid. 130. (1) Any peace officer may arrest anyone whom Apprehension of offender he finds committing, or has reasonable grounds to believe against Title has committed, any offence mentioned in this Title; and may 10. call upon all persons present to assist him in arresting the [1 of 1989 9 of 1997 offender. 10 of 1998] (2) Everyone who, being so called upon by a peace Penalty for officer for assistance, refuses to render assistance to the best refusal to aid of his power, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven apprehension. thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars. TITLE 11 DISORDERLY CONDUCT Drunkenness. 131. Everyone found drunk in any public way or [1 of 1989 public place, or on the premises of any person, to the 8 of 1997 annoyance or disturbance of that person or of any inmate of 10 of 1998] his premises shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars 132. Everyone who, having been thrice convicted Habitual drunkenness. under the provisions of any law for having been found L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 78 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) [10 of 1998] drunk, is, within one year from the first conviction, found drunk in any public way or public place, or on any premises aforesaid shall be deemed a habitual drunkard, and shall be liable to imprisonment for six months. Permitting 133. (1) Every owner or occupier, and every person in disorderly the employment of an owner or occupier, of any house, shop, conduct, in place of public room, or other place of public resort wherein provisions, resort. liquors, or refreshments of any kind are sold and consumed [1 of 1989 (whether they are kept or retailed therein or are procured 8 of 1997 10 of 1998 elsewhere), who knowingly permits drunkenness, gambling, 5 of 2007] or any other disorderly conduct therein, or knowingly permits known prostitutes, or convicted felons, vagrants, rogues and vagabonds, or incorrigible rogues to meet together or remain therein, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. (2) In this section ‚gambling‛ excludes licensed casino gambling (as defined by section 2 (1) of the Gambling Prevention Act). Expulsion from 134. (1) Everyone who is drunk, riotous, quarrelsome premises of drunken or disorderly in any house, shop, room, or other place person, etc. licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors by retail, or [1 of 1989 kept for public refreshment, resort, and entertainment, and 8 of 1997 refuses or neglects to quit the house, shop, room, or place, 10 of 1998] upon being requested to do so by the owner, manager, or occupier thereof, or by his agent or servant, or by any police or rural constable, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars. (2) Every police or rural constable is hereby authorised and required on the demand of the owner, manager, occupier, agent or servant, to assist in expelling the drunken, riotous, quarrelsome or disorderly person from the house, shop, room, or place. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 79 Riotous 135. Everyone who— behaviour in place of worship. (a) is guilty of any riotous, indecent, [1 of 1989 disorderly, or insulting behaviour in 24 of 1990 any church, chapel, temple, mosque 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] or synagogue, or other building appropriated for religious worship, whether during divine service or at any other time; or (b) disturbs or molests any person in any church, chapel, temple, mosque or synagogue, or other building appropriated for religious worship, whether during divine service or at any other time; or (c) disturbs or molests any minister of religion while lawfully celebrating any religious rite or office in any place, or any other person aiding, assisting, or attending at the celebration of that rite or office, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars . Riotous 136. Everyone who— behaviour in public (a) in any public way or public place, or in [1 of 1989 8 of 1998 any house, yard, garden, or other 10 of 1998] place open to public view or within public hearing; or (b) in any court or police station, or in any lock-up near a court room; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 80 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (c) in any theatre, concert-hall, lecture- room, or other place of public entertainment or instruction, of whatever kind, is guilty of any riotous, indecent, disorderly, or insulting behaviour shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. Causing public 137. (1) Everyone who, in any public way or public terror. place, or in any theatre, concert-hall, lecture-room, or [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 other place of public entertainment or instruction, of 10 of 1998] whatever kind, or being unlawfully in any place not public, wantonly does any act with intent to cause terror to any person or persons shall if harm is thereby caused to anyone, or if his act was of a character likely to cause harm to any person, by terror, be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. (2) For the purposes of this section, harm shall in that case be deemed to have been caused by the act, although the harm is the mere inward effect of the terror caused by the act. Unlawfully 138. Everyone who, on or in view of any public way carrying arms or public place, openly carries without lawful excuse any in public way deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument or any stick or place [10 of 1998] whatsoever, with intent, or in manner, to cause terror or alarm to the public shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months and to whipping or flogging. Public fight 139. Everyone who unlawfully fights with anyone else [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 in, or in view or in hearing of, any public way or public place 10 0f 1998] shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars, or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 81 imprisonment for four months, in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable. Public insult 140. Everyone who, in or in view of any public way or and public place, insults anyone else in his presence in a manner provocation [1 of 1989 likely to provoke a person to commit a breach of the peace 8 of 1997 shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars 10 of 1998] nor more than twenty thousand dollars. Provoking 141. Everyone who— breach of peace (a) makes use of any threatening, abusive, [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 insulting, or obscene language, 10 of 1998] gesture, or behaviour, or says or sings any insulting or offensive song or ballad, with intent to provoke anyone else to commit a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned; or (b) makes use of any abusive, insulting, obscene, or profane language, or says or sings any insulting or offensive song or ballad, to the annoyance of any person in any place; or (c) sends or delivers to any person any obscene writing, print, engraving, picture, or other representation; or (d) calls any person by a name other than his own, with intent to insult or annoy him; or (d) with intent to insult or annoy any person, knowingly publishes or causes (e) to be published in any newspaper any false notice or advertisement of any L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 82 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) birth, marriage, or death; or (f) commits any breach of the peace not deserving of a more severe punishment, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for six months. Apprehension 142. Any police or rural constable may arrest without of offender warrant any person whom he may find committing an without warrant. offence mentioned in this Title. PART V OFFENCES AGAINST RELIGION, MORALITY AND PUBLIC CONVENIENCE TITLE 12 POLICE OFFENCES Vagrants Vagrancy 14 3. Everyone who does any of the following acts shall be [4 of 1972 declared a vagrant or idle and disorderly person, and shall be 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred 10 of 1998] dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars or to imprisonment for four months, that is to say, everyone who— (a) being able, by labour or other lawful means, to maintain himself or herself, or his wife or child, or her child, where the wife or child is without other means of support, wilfully refuses or neglects to do so; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 83 (b) wanders abroad, or places himself in any public way or public place, or intrudes in any private premises after being lawfully ordered to depart, and uses any solicitation, means, or device to induce the bestowal of alms upon him, or causes, procures, or encourages any other person to do so; or (c) sleeps, lodges, or loiters in or under any porch, verandah, gallery, outhouse, passage, gateway, dwelling- house, warehouse, store, shop, stable, or other building, or in or under any building wholly or in part unoccupied, or is found in or under any cart, carriage, or vessel, or in any logie or plantation building, or on or under any wharf, stelling, quay, jetty, bridge or other place, or in any cane- field or provision ground, or on or in any dam or trench immediately adjoining thereto, without leave of the owner, occupier, or person for the time being in charge thereof, and has no visible means of subsistence or Rogues and Vagabonds does not give a satisfactory account of himself. 10 of 1998] 144. (1) Everyone who does or suffers any of the Roguery and following acts or things shall be declared a rogue and vagabondage [6 of 1946 vagabond, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten 4 of 1972 thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars or to 1 of 1989 imprisonment for ten months, that is to say, everyone who— 8 of 1997 L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 84 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (a) is convicted a second or any subsequent time of being a vagrant or idle and disorderly person; or (b) while being apprehended as a vagrant or idle and disorderly person, assaults or violently resists the police or rural constable or other person who is apprehending him, and is subsequently convicted of the offence for which he was being apprehended; or (c) procures or endeavours to procure alms or charitable contributions for himself or any other person, under any false or fraudulent pretence; or (d) is found in or under any porch, verandah, gallery, outhouse, passage, gateway, dwelling-house, warehouse, store, shop, stable, or other building, or in any yard, garden, or other enclosed place or land for any unlawful purpose, or, being found in any of those places, does not give a satisfactory account of himself; or (e) plays or bets by way of wagering or gaming in any street, road, highway or other open or public place, or in any open place to which the public have or are permitted to have access to or with any table, dice, cards or other instrument or means of such wagering or gaming at any game or pretended game of chance; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 85 (f) has in his custody or possession any picklock, key, crowbar, jack, bit, or other implement, with intent unlawfully to break into any building, or is armed with or has upon him any gun, pistol, sword, knife, razor, bludgeon, or other deadly or dangerous weapon or instrument, with intent to commit any unlawful act; and the weapon or instrument shall, on the conviction of the offender, be forfeited; or (g) is convicted a second or any subsequent time of an offence against section 136(a) or section 141; or (h) is convicted a second or any subsequent time of an offence against section 159; or (i) being a suspected person or reputed thief, loiters or lurks about or frequents any river, canal, or navigable stream, or any market, warehouse, wharf, dock, or stelling, or loiters or lurks in or about or frequents any vessel, punt, boat, or other craft, with intent to commit any robbery, theft, or unlawful act, or is found in any of those places or in any vessel, boat, punt, or other craft aforesaid, and does not give a satisfactory account of himself; or (j) is convicted a second or any subsequent time of an offence against L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 86 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) section 161; or (k) unlawfully sells, attempts to sell, or unlawfully acts as an agent for the sale of any lottery ticket. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (l), where the court, having regard to the youth of the person convicted, his character, or his previous good behaviour, or such other considerations as may seem fit, is of opinion that it would be unduly harsh to declare such person a rogue and vagabond then the court may in its discretion refrain from declaring such person a rogue and vagabond. Obeah and Witchcraft Interpretation 145. (1) For the purposes of this section ‚obeah‛ of ‚obeah‛ signifies every pretended assumption of supernatural power or knowledge whatever, for fraudulent or illicit purposes or for gain, or for the injury of any person. (2) Everyone who— Practising obeah to intimidate, (a) by the practice or pretended practice of defraud or obeah, or by any occult means or injure assumption of supernatural power [8 of 1997] or knowledge, or by any pretended love philtre or medicine,— (i) intimidates, or attempts to intimidate or influence, anyone; or (ii) obtains or endeavours to obtain any chattel, money, or valuable security, from another; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 87 (iii) pretends to discover any lost or stolen goods, or the person who stole them, or to inflict any disease, loss, damage, or personal injury, to or upon another, or to restore another to health, or to cause or divert affection; and Aiding and (b) procures, counsels, induces, or abetting persuades, or endeavours to persuade, another to commit any of those offences, whether with or without payment, shall on conviction before any magistrate, be deemed a rogue and vagabond, and be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding twelve months, and if a male, may be sentenced to a flogging during the continuance of the imprisonment, and if a female, may during the imprisonment be kept in solitary confinement not exceeding six days at any one time and not exceeding two months in the whole, as directed by the magistrate, and shall in addition be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. Search for (3) If it is shown, upon the oath of a credible articles used in witness, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any obeah and witchcraft. person is in possession of any human skull, or part thereof, or other portion of the human body, or any other article or thing, for the purpose of being used in the practice of obeah or witchcraft, any magistrate may, by warrant, under his hand, cause any place whatsoever belonging to, or under the control of, that person to be searched, either by day or night and, if any of those articles are found in any place so searched, may cause them to be seized and brought before him or some other magistrate who shall cause them to be secured forthe purpose of production in evidence in any case in which they are L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 88 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) required. Possession for (4) Anyone in possession of any article or thing purposes of aforesaid, for the purpose of using it or causing or allowing it obeah to be used in the practice of obeah or witchcraft, shall be liable [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more 10 of 1998] than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding eighteen months. Fortune-telling (5) Anyone who uses any subtle craft, means, or [1 of 1989 device, by palmistry, cards, or otherwise, to deceive and 8 of 1997 impose upon another, and anyone who for personal gain 10 of 1998] pretends or professes to tell fortunes, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars and to imprisonment for ten months. Seizure and (6) Any police or rural constable may seize all disposal of articles and things used, or intended to be used, or which he articles used for witchcraft. may suspect are intended to be used, in the pretence of practising obeah or witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment, or conjuration, and take them before a magistrate, and the magistrate may order the articles or things to be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as he thinks fit. (7) (a) The Postmaster General, or anyone authorised by him, shall detain and search any postal packet c 47:01 (as defined by the Post and Telegraph Act) which he suspects to contain any charms, or other articles of any description whatsoever to be used in witchcraft, or any letters, or printed or written matter, giving instructions in witchcraft or sorcery, or any sorcerous matter of whatever description. (b) If on the search anything is found which is deemed to be for use or instruction in witchcraft or sorcery, or of a sorcerous nature, it shall be dealt with in the manner directed by the Minister. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 89 Proof of 146. In proving a purpose or intent under any of the unlawful provisions of the two last preceding sections, it shall not be intent. necessary to show that the person charged was guilty of any particular act or acts tending to show his purpose or intent, and he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case and from his known character as proved to the court, it appears to the court that his purpose was unlawful, or that his intent was to commit a robbery, theft, or unlawful act. Incorrigible Rogues Incorrigible 147. Everyone who – roguery. [10 of 1998] (a) commits an offence against this Title which subjects him to be dealt with as a rogue and vagabond, he having been previously convicted thereof; or (b) while being apprehended as a rogue and vagabond, assaults or violently resists the police or rural constable or other person apprehending him, and is subsequently convicted of the offence for which he was being apprehended, shall be deemed to be an incorrigible rogue, and shall be liable to imprisonment for twelve months and to whipping or flogging. Requiring 148. Everyone convicted of being an incorrigible incorrigible rogue may, in addition to any punishment imposed under rogue to find the last preceding section, be required by the court to enter sureties. [10 of 1998] into a recognisance, either with or without a surety or sureties, as to the court seems fit, to be of good behaviour for any period not exceeding twenty-four months, and, in default of entering into the recognisance, he shall beliable to imprisonment for six months, in addition to any term of L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 90 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) imprisonment last aforesaid. Apprehension 149. (1) Any police or rural constable may arrest of offender without warrant any person whom he finds committing an against this offence against any of the preceding sections of this Title. Title. (2) On information being laid upon oath before any justice of the peace that any person reasonably suspected to be a vagrant or idle and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond, or an incorrigible rogue, is or is reasonably suspected to be harboured or concealed in any house, building, or place, the justice may authorise, by warrant under his hand, any police or rural constable to enter at any time, by force if necessary, the house, building, or place, and to apprehend and bring the person before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law. Harbouring thieves Harbouring 150. (1) Everyone who— thieves in lodging-house, or place of sale (a) occupies, or keeps, or manages for of liquors or another, or holds a licence for, any brothels. lodging-house, tavern, retail spirit [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 shop, or place where intoxicating 10 of 1998] liquors are sold, or any place of public entertainment or public resort, and knowingly lodges or harbours thieves or reputed thieves, or knowingly suffers them to meet or assemble therein, or knowingly allows the deposit of goods therein, having reasonable cause for believing the goods to be stolen; or (b) occupies or keeps any brothel, and knowingly lodges or harbours thieves L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 91 or reputed thieves, or knowingly suffers them to meet or assemble therein, or knowingly allows the deposit of goods therein, having reasonable cause for believing them to be stolen, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. (2) The court may, if it thinks fit, either in addition to or in lieu of that penalty, require the person to enter into a recognisance, either with or without a surety or sureties, as to the court seems fit, to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for any period not exceeding twelve months. (3) No person shall be imprisoned for not finding a surety or sureties in pursuance of the preceding subsection for any longer period than three months, nor shall the security required from a surety exceed fifteen thousand dollars. Entering 151. (1) Any police constable may, for the purpose of premises for detecting or preventing the contravention of any of the discovery of provisions of subsection (1) (b) of the last preceding section, at thieves [1 of 1989 all times enter on any premises referred to therein; and 8 of 1997 everyone who, by himself, or by any person in his employ, or 10 of 1998 acting by his direction, or with his consent, refuses or neglects 19 of 2007] to admit any police constable in the execution of his duty demanding to enter on those premises in pursuance of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars, and, on a second or any subsequent conviction for that offence, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 92 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (2) Where any person who holds a retail spirit licence or is employed by the holder of a retail spirit licence, is convicted under this section or subsection (1) of the last preceding section, the magistrate shall transmit a copy of the evidence taken in the case to the excise board, who may take the evidence into consideration when deciding as to the renewal of that licence. Lodging or 151A. Nothwithstanding anything contained in harbouring of wanted person. section 150 or any other law everyone who knowingly lodges [19 of 2007] or harbours any person whose name and photograph have been publicly displayed or published by the police as a wanted person in connection with any alleged commission of a crime commits an offence and shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty thousand dollars nor more than eighty thousand dollars together with imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years and the court shall in addition to the penalty order to be forfeited to the State any assets derived by the commission of the offence or property, including immovable property, owned and used directly by the person in connection with the lodging or harbouring of the wanted person. Search for Stolen Property Entry by police 152. (1) Any police constable may, in the circumstances on premises and search for hereafter in this section mentioned, be authorised in writing and seizure of by the Commissioner, or the Deputy Commissioner, of stolen Police, or by a superintendent of police, to enter, and, if so property. authorised, may enter, any house, shop, warehouse, yard, or other premises in search of stolen property, and search for and seize and secure any property which he believes to have been stolen, in the same manner as he would be authorised to do if he had a search warrant and the property seized, if any, corresponded to the property described in the search warrant. (2) Whenever any property is seized in pursuance of this section, the person on whose premises it was at the time of the seizure, or the person from whom it was L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 93 taken, if other than the person on whose premises it was, shall, unless previously charged with receiving it knowing it to have been stolen, be apprehended and brought, or be summoned, before the court to account for his possession of the property, and the court shall make such order respecting the disposal of the property, and may award such costs, as the justice of the case may require. (3) Any officer of police aforesaid may give the authority aforesaid in the following cases, or either of them – (a) where the premises to be searched are, or within the twelve months have been, in the occupation of any person who has been convicted of receiving stolen property or of harbouring thieves; or (b) where the premises to be searched are in the occupation of any person who has been convicted of any offence involving fraud or dishonesty, and punishable by imprisonment. (4) It shall not be necessary for the officer of police, on giving the authority, to specify any particular property, but he may give the authority if he has reason to believe generally that the premises are being made a receptacle for stolen goods. Minor Offences, chiefly in Towns Various minor offences 153. (1) Every person who does any of the following principally in acts shall, in each case, be liable to a fine of not less than relation to towns: seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen disturbing thousand dollars— inhabitant of (i) during the night wilfully and without lawful excuse, disturbs any inhabitant L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 94 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) town during by pulling or ringing any door-bell or the night; by knocking at any door, or rolls any [6 of 1937 6 of 1946 hogshead, puncheon, cask, barrel, tub, 1 of 1989 hoop, or other thing, or drags, pulls, 8 of 1997 pushes, or otherwise moves any heavy 10 of 1998] substance or thing, by which any noise is wantonly made, to the annoyance or disturbance of any inhabitant of a town or of any passenger or neighbour; or discharging (ii) except when acting in obedience to cannon within lawful authority, discharges any 300 yards of dwelling- cannon, or other fire-arm of greater house; calibre than a common fowling-piece, within three hundred yards of any dwelling-house, to the annoyance or disturbance of any inhabitant thereof, after having been warned of the annoyance or disturbance by any inhabitant of the dwelling- house; or discharging (iii) discharges any gun, pistol, or other fire- fire-arm within arm on any public way or public 100 yards of place, or within one hundred yards public way; thereof, except on some lawful and necessary occasion: (but the bona fide discharge of the fire-arm for the purpose of killing carrion crows shall be deemed a discharge on a lawful and necessary occasion); or exposing for (iv) in any town, offers or exposes for show, sale cattle in hire, or sale any cattle, except in a improper place market or market-place or other in town; convenient place lawfully appointed for that purpose; or in any public way or public place, to the annoyance of any person, feeds, fodders, farries, shoes, or bleeds any cattle except in case of accident; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 95 grooming animal on (v) grooms, washes, trains, or breaks any public way in horse, mule or ass, or other animal, or town; placing cleans or washes any vehicle, on any goods public way or public place in any on public way in town; town; or placing goods (vi) places or leaves any goods, wares, or on public way merchandise, or any hogshead, cask, in town; puncheon, barrel, basket, tub, pail, or bucket, or places or uses any standing- place, stool, bench, stall, or show- board, on any public way in any town, or places any blind, shade, covering, awning, or other projection over or along that way, unless the blind, shade, covering, awning, or other projection is six feet six inches in height at least in every part thereof from the ground; or placing goods (vii) places, hangs up, or otherwise exposes over public in any town any goods, wares, or way in town merchandise, or other thing whatsoever so that they or it project or projects into or over any pubic way or beyond the line of any house, shop, or building, at which they or it are or is so exposed, so as to obstruct or incommode the passage of any person over or along any public way; or rolling or (viii) rolls or carries any hogshead, carrying articles on puncheon, cask, barrel, tub, hoop, or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 96 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) footway in wheel, or any ladder, plank, pole, town; timber, board or placard, on any footway in any town, except in loading or unloading any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, or in crossing the footway; or Obstructing (ix) places any line, cord, or pole across any public way; public way, or hangs or places any clothes or fish seine on any line, cord, or pole projecting over any part of any public way or public place; or lays or places any clothes on any public way or public place or public parapet; or throwing materials on (x) in any public way or public place, public way; or in any public canal, throws or lays any coals, stones, slates, shells, lime, bricks, timber, iron, firewood, or other materials, except building materials or rubbish occasioned by building, which shall be placed or enclosed so as to prevent any mischief happening to any inhabitant or passenger, and except materials for the repair of public roads and for other public purposes, when placed there by the proper authority; or beating mat in public way in (xi) in any public way or public place in town; any town, beats or shakes any mat between seven o‘clock in the morning and six o‘clock in the afternoon; or furious riding (xii) while riding any horse or other animal and driving; or driving any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, including any bicycle or other L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 97 like vehicle, in any public way or public place, rides or drives it furiously, so as to endanger the safety of any passenger, or to the common danger of passengers; or rapid riding or (xiii) passes or turns the horse or other driving at corners; animal, or the cart, carriage, or other vehicle, round the angle of any public way, or crosses any public way, at a rapid or dangerous pace; or driving cattle in dangerous (xiv) being in charge of any cattle, drives or manner in suffers them to be driven on and along public way; any public way in such numbers or in such manner as to endanger the safety of any passenger, or otherwise misbehaves himself in the care, driving or management of the cattle; or driving cattle (xv) drives or leads any cattle in any public without proper way, without proper and sufficient assistance; assistance; or (xvi) carries in any vehicle having only two carrying thing in two-wheeled wheels, or, being the owner of the vehicle vehicle, suffers to be carried therein, on any public way any article or thing which projects beyond the head of the animal drawing the vehicle, or, if there are more animals than one, beyond the head of the animal nearest to the vehicle, or which projects more than four feet beyond the hinder part of the vehicle; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 98 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) carrying thing (xvii) carries in any vehicle, or, being the in vehicle owner of any vehicle, suffers to be generally; carried therein, on any public way any article or thing which projects more than thirty inches beyond the plane of the wheels of the vehicle; or (xviii) hauls or draws on any public way any hauling timber etc. on public timber, stone, or other thing otherwise way; than upon a vehicle with wheels, or suffers any timber, stone, or other thing which is being carried principally or in part upon a vehicle with wheels, to drag or trail upon any public way; or careless driving (xix) having the care of any cart, carriage, or of cart or other vehicle, rides on any part of it, or carriage. on the shafts, or on any animal drawing it, without having or holding the reins, or is at such distance from it as not to have the complete control over every animal drawing it; or obstruction of public way; (xx) by obstructing any public way, wilfully prevents any person, cart, carriage, or other vehicle, or any horse or other animal, from passing him or any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, or horse or other animal, under his care; or riding (xxi) leads or rides any horse or other footways; animal, or draws or drives any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, along any footpath or kerb-stone, or fastens any horse or other animal so that it can or does stand across or upon any L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 99 footway; or (xxii) roller-skates in the City of Georgetown roller-skating on road; or the town of New Amsterdam, on any public way or on any footpath adjoining such public way, or on any road as defined by section 2 of the c.51:01 Roads Act; or causing (xxiii) causes any cart, carriage, or other obstruction in public way vehicle, whether with or without any with vehicle; animal attached to it, to stand longer in any public way than is necessary for loading or unloading, or getting into or alighting from it, or, by means of any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, or any horse or other animal, wilfully obstructs or causes any obstruction in any public way; or allowing public (xxiv) being the driver or having the charge vehicle to of any public vehicle, allows the stand in vehicle to remain or stand, for the improper purpose of hire, at any place in any place in town; town other than a place from time to time lawfully appointed for that purpose; or leaving vehicle (xxv) being the driver or having the charge unattended in of any cart, carriage, or other vehicle, public way; leaves it unattended in any public vehicle way or public place; or shouting or (xxvi) in any public way or public place, blowing horn wilfully or wantonly shouts or etc. in public vociferates, or blows any horn or shell, way; or beats any drum or other instrument, to the annoyance, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 100 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) disturbance or danger of any inhabitant or passenger, or sounds or plays upon any musical instrument, or sings, quarrels, or makes any other loud or unseemly noise, near to any house after having been required to depart; or throwing (xxvii) on or near to any public way or public stones; place, throws or discharges any stone or other missile, to the annoyance, damage, or danger of any person; or stoning railway (xxviii) throws or discharges any stone or vehicle; other missile at any engine, carriage, or other vehicle on any railway; or flying kite in (xxix) in any public way flies any kite or public way; plays at any game; or flying kite in Georgetown; (xxx) flies any kite within the City of Georgetown or at any place situate east of the Demerara River and within one mile of the boundaries of the said City: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the portion of the beach between imaginary straight lines running due north from the bandstand on the Sea Wall and Vlissengen Road respectively; or flying kite in New (xxxi) flies any kite within the town of New Amsterdam; Amsterdam or at any place situate east of the Berbice River and within one mile of the boundaries of the said L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 101 town: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the right bank of the Berbice River north of the bandstand on the Esplanade; or setting on ferocious dog; (xxxii) suffers to be at large unmuzzled any ferocious dog, or sets on or urges any dog or other animal to attack, worry, or put in fear any person or cattle; or suffering rabid dog to be at large; (xxxiii) being the owner or having the charge of any dog, knowingly suffers it to be at large in a rabid state; or suffering dog to be at large (xxxiv) after public notice, given by any after notice; magistrate or other person having authority in that behalf, directing dogs or other animals to be confined on account of suspicion of madness, suffers any dog or other animal specified in the notice belonging to him or under his charge to be at large in contravention of the notice; or making fire in town else- (xxxv) in any part of any town, or any place where than in kitchen; immediately adjacent thereto, makes any fire in the yard or other part of any house or premises except the kitchen, whereby the town, or any house or other building, shed, or outhouse therein, or in the immediate vicinity thereof or adjacent thereto, may be endangered; or lighting or (xxxvi) without the permission in writing in carrying fire in that behalf of any officer of police, in town; L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 102 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) any public way or public place in any town lights any fire, or carries any lighted torch, candle, or other lighted thing, or any fire, through the town, unless secured in a lantern or some other safe thing in which it may be conveyed; or making bonfire or exploding (xxxvii) in any public way or public place in fire- works in any town, makes any bonfire, or town; places or throws any explosive substance, whether it explodes or not, or sets fire to any firework or throws any lighted firework; or smoking on wharf; (xxxviii) smokes on a wharf or stelling, or on any way leading thereto, where there is posted up on the wharf or stelling, or on the way, as the case may be, a notice in large legible letters forbidding in general terms all persons to smoke and warning them that they will be prosecuted for so doing; or extinguishing street lamp; (xxxix) wantonly extinguishes the light of any street lamp or burner; or cleaning cask, (xl) in any public way or public place, etc. in public way; cleanses, fires, washes, or scalds any cask or tub, or hews, saws, bores, or cuts any timber or stone, or slacks, sifts, or screens any lime; or throwing litter in public way; (xli) throws or lays any dirt, litter, ashes, or night soil, or any carrion, fish, offal, rubbish, or other matter or thing, or commits any nuisance, on any public L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 103 way or public place; or causes or permits any offensive matter to run from any slaughter-house, butcher‘s shop, stall, kitchen, or dunghill into any public way or public place; or, in any town, deposits in any place whatever any offensive matter or thing, to the injury or annoyance of any inhabitant or passenger in the town; or throwing (xlii) throws, or, being the owner or occupier objects from of any house or other building in any house in town; town, permits to be thrown, from any part of the house or other building any slate, brick, rubbish, water, or other thing; or fixing thing in (xliii) in any town, fixes or places any flower- window in pot, or box, or other heavy article or town; thing in any window or other place so that it overhangs any public way or public place, without sufficiently securing it from falling; or leaving open (xliv) in any town, does not sufficiently fence pit unfenced; any pit or drain left open, or leaves an open pit or drain during the night without a sufficient light to warn and prevent persons from falling thereinto; or assembling in (xlv) assembles with other persons in any public way, for public way or public place, or in any disorderly purpose, and open space of ground in the not dispersing immediate neighbourhood thereof, when required; for any idle, lewd, vicious, or disorderly purpose, or otherwise than L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 104 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) in the regular performance or in pursuance of some lawful calling or object, to the annoyance or obstruction of any inhabitant or passenger, and does not disperse or move away when thereunto required by any peace officer; or loitering about (xlvi) loiters, carouses, or the like, in or about shop; any shop, and does not quietly leave or move away when thereunto required by any police or rural constable or by the owner of the shop or his agent or servant; or wearing of (xlvii) being a man, in any public way or female attire by public place, for any improper man; wearing of male attire purpose, appears in female attire; or by woman; being a woman, in any public way or public place, for any improper purpose, appears in male attire; or behaving (xlviii) behaves irreverently or indecently irreverently near place of near to any church, chapel, or other worship; building appropriated for religious worship during divine service, or behaves irreverently or indecently in or near to any public burial-ground during the burial of a body; or bill posting without (xlix) without the consent of the owner or consent of occupier thereof, affixes any posting- owner; bill or other paper or thing against or upon any building, wall, fence, pillar, post, or pale, or writes upon, soils, defaces, or marks the building, wall, fence, pillar, post, or pale, with chalk L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 105 or paint, or in any other way, or with any other material. (2) Every bicycle, tricycle and other similar machine shall be deemed to be a vehicle within the meaning of subsection (1) (xiii), (xx), (xxi), (xxiii) and (xxv). Driving Cart, etc. When driver’s 154. (1) If the driver or other person in charge of any name is unknown. cart, carriage, or other vehicle, or of any animal, whose name is unknown, contravenes any of the provisions of this Title or of Title 14, relating to carts, carriages, or vehicles, or to animals, and that person is not apprehended and taken into custody, the magistrate of the district may summon the owner of the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal, to come before him and disclose the name of the person who was driving or in charge of it at the time when the offence was committed, to the intent that the person may be proceeded against according to law; and if the owner of the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal refuses or neglects to attend after having been duly summoned, or if he attends but refuses to disclose the name of the person who was driving or in charge of the cart, carriage, vehicle or animal, he shall be subject and liable to the like penalty as he, if known, would have been subject and liable to under this Title or Title 14, and he shall be convicted in like manner as if he himself had been actually driving or in charge of the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal, at the time when the offence was committed: Provided that if the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal belongs to, or is in the employ of, any plantation or estate, the manager or person in charge of the plantation or estate, and not the owner of the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal, shall be summoned and dealt with in the manner hereinbefore provided. (2) Every bicycle, tricycle and other similar L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 106 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) machine shall be deemed to be a vehicle within the meaning of this section. When person 155. (1) Where any person having charge of any cart, in charge of carriage, or other vehicle, or of any animal, is apprehended vehicle or animal is for any offence against the provisions of this Title or of Title apprehended. 14, other than sections 176 to 188 (inclusive) the person [6 of 1937] apprehending the offender may take charge of the cart, carriage, vehicle or animal, and may deposit it in some place of safe custody, as a security for the payment of any fine to which the owner, or the person having charge, thereof has become liable, and for payment of any expenses which have been or are necessarily incurred in taking charge of and keeping it, and, if it is desirable to do so, in order that it may be produced at the hearing of the cause; and the magistrate may order the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal to be sold for the purpose of satisfying the fine and all reasonable expenses: Provided that, on sufficient security being furnished for the payment of the sums aforesaid, a magistrate or police officer may direct the cart, carriage, vehicle, or animal to be delivered up to the owner. (2) Every bicycle, tricycle or other similar machine shall be deemed to be a vehicle within the meaning of this section. Release and 156. Every person who— rescue of impounded stray (a) releases, or attempts to release, any [6 of 1946 animal seized as a stray under the 4 of 1972 authority of any Act for the time being 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 in force relating to the impounding of 10 of 1998] stray animals, while such animal is being taken on the way to a pound for the purpose of being impounded; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 107 (b) rescues or releases, or attempts to rescue or release, any animal impounded as a stray under any such Act, before it is discharged in due course of law, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. TITLE 13 NUISANCES Indecency and Obscenity Circulation of 157. Everyone who— /or traffic in obscene objects [1 of 1989 (a) for the purposes or by way of trade, or 8 of 1997 for distribution or public exhibition, 10 of 1998] makes, or produces, or has in his possession, or imports, conveys, or exports, or causes to be imported, conveyed, or exported, or in any manner whatsoever puts into circulation, any obscene writing, drawing, print, painting, printed matter, picture, poster, emblem, photograph, cinematograph film, or any other obscene object; or (b) carries on or takes part in a business, whether public or private, concerned with any of those obscene matters or things, or deals in any of them in any manner whatsoever, or distributes them, or exhibits them publicly, or makes a business of lending them; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 108 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (c) advertises or makes known by any means whatsoever in view of assisting in that circulation or traffic, that any person is engaged in any of the above acts, or advertises or makes known how or from whom any of the obscene matters or things aforesaid may be procured either directly or indirectly, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. Power to 158. (1) On proof upon oath before a magistrate search for, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any of the seize and destroy obscene matters or things in the preceding section mentioned obscene are kept in any house, shop, room, or other place, within the objects. limits of his jurisdiction for any of the purposes in that section mentioned, the magistrate may authorise, by warrant under his hand, any police constable to enter in the daytime, by force, if necessary, that house, shop, room, or other place, and to search for, seize, and bring before him any of the obscene matters or things aforesaid found in the house, shop, room, or other place. (2) Upon any matters or things seized under a warrant being brought before him, the magistrate shall, if satisfied that they or any of them are or is obscene, issue a summons requiring the occupier of the house, shop, room, or other place, to appear before him to show cause why those matters or things should not be destroyed. (3) If the occupier, or some other person claiming to be the owner of the matters or things does not appear before the magistrate, or, though appearing, fails to satisfy the magistrate that the matters or things, were not being kept for any of the purposes aforesaid, the magistrate shall order the L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 109 matters or things to be destroyed forthwith: Provided that the magistrate may stay the execution of the order in respect of any of the matters and things aforesaid he may consider should be preserved for use in further proceedings, or, on application being made in that behalf by any interested party, he may stay the execution pending an appeal. (4) If the magistrate is satisfied that any matters or things seized under a warrant are not obscene or were not being kept for any of the purposes aforesaid, he shall direct that they be returned forthwith to the house, shop, room or other place, in which they were so seized. Indecent 159. Any advertisement relating to syphilis, advertisement. gonorrhoea, nervous debility, or other complaint or infirmity arising from or relating to sexual intercourse, shall be deemed to be printed or written matter of an indecent and obscene nature within the meaning of section 160 if it is affixed to or inscribed on any house, building, wall, hoarding, gate, fence, pillar, post, board, tree, or any other thing whatsoever, so as to be visible to anyone in, or passing along, any public way or public place, or is affixed to or inscribed on any public urinal, or is delivered or attempted to be delivered to anyone in, or passing along, any public way or public place. Requirement 160. (1) No person, other than a child under the age of as to decent five years shall appear in public without being sufficiently clothing in and decently clothed; but the Magistrate may allow any public. [4 of 1972 relaxation in the requirements of this section he thinks 1 of 1989 proper having regard to the traditional mode of dress 8 of 1997 obtaining in any particular community to which the person 10 of 1998] charged may belong. (2) Everyone who contravenes this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 110 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) than ten thousand dollars. (3) Nothing in this section shall extend to any labourer upon any plantation or estate working in the trenches whilst actually so employed, nor whilst going to and returning from the field, nor whilst engaged in labour in the field. (4) Where a child is convicted of a contravention of this section, the guardian of the child shall be liable to the payment of any fine imposed by the conviction, unless he makes it appear, to the satisfaction of the court, that the child is of sufficient ability to provide the necessary wearing apparel mentioned in this section. Bathing public 161. Everyone who, not being sufficiently and decently insufficiently clothed, bathes in the daytime in the sea, or in any river, clothed. creek, stream, trench, canal, or other place, near or within [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 sight from any public way or public place shall be liable to a 10 of 1998] fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. Various acts of 162. Everyone who, in any public way or public place, indecency or in any house, yard, garden, or other place open to public [51 of 1952 view or within public hearing— 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] (a) uses any indecent or obscene gesture; or (b) exposes his person in an indecent manner; or (c) uses any indecent or obscene language; or (d) sings any indecent or obscene song or ballad, L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 111 shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars. Use of profane 163. Everyone who, in any public way or public place, language. [1 of 1989 or in any house, yard, garden, or other place within public 8 of 1997 hearing— 10 of 1998] (a) profanely curses or swears or uses any other profane language; or (b) sings any profane song or ballad, shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars. Apprehension 164. Any police or rural constable may arrest without of offender. warrant anyone whom he may find committing any offence against any of the last six preceding sections. Brothels and Prostitution Keeping 165. (1) Any person who— brothel. [ 6 of 1946 1 of 1989 (a) keeps, or manages, or acts or assists in 8 of 1997 the management of, a brothel; or 10 of 1998] (b) being the tenant, lessee, occupier or person in charge of any premises knowingly permits such premises or any part thereof to be used as a brothel; or (c) being the lessor or landlord of any premises, or the agent or such lessor landlord, lets the same or any part thereof with the knowledge that such premises or some part thereof are or is to be used as a brothel; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 112 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (d) being the lessor or landlord of any premises, or the agent of such lessor or landlord, is wilfully a party to the continued use of such premises or any part thereof, as a brothel, shall be liable on summary conviction— (i) in the case of a first conviction, to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months; and (ii) in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine of not less than thirty thousand dollars nor more than sixty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three years. (2) Where it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on the oath of a member of the police force not below the rank of sergeant that there is reason to suspect that an offence against this section is being committed in respect of any premises described in the information, the magistrate may issue a warrant empowering and authorising any member of the police force to enter the said premises and any room or other part thereof, by force if necessary, at any hour of the day or night and to search the same, and the warrant shall be sufficient authority for the making of as many entries and searches, within the period of fourteen days from the date of the warrant, as may be considered necessary. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 113 (3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (l)(a) or (b), the Commissioner of Police shall cause a certified copy of the conviction to be served on the proprietor, the landlord and the agent (if any) of the premises to which the conviction relates. (4) In this section— "agent" means a person who lets premises on behalf of a landlord or collects rent in respect of the premises on behalf of the landlord or is authorised by him so to do; "brothel" includes a common ill-governed or disorderly house. Prostitution. 166. Every person who— [6 of 1946 1of 1989 8 of 1997 (a) being a male person, knowingly lives 10 of 1998] wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; or (b) being a male person, in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes; or (c) loiters about, or importunes any person in, any street or other public place for the purpose of prostitution, shall be liable, on summary conviction— (i) in the case of a first conviction, to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months, and L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 114 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (ii) in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to imprisonment for three years, and if the offender is a male, he shall in addition, be liable to a whipping or flogging. Warrant to 167. If it is made to appear to a court of summary search suspected jurisdiction by information on oath that there is reason to house. suspect that any house, or any part of a house, is used by a female for purposes of prostitution, and that any male person residing in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitute, the court may issue a warrant authorising any constable to enter and search the house and to arrest that male person. Presumption of 168. Where a male person is proved to live with, or to guilt. be habitually in the company of, a prostitute and has no visible means of subsistence, he shall, unless he can satisfy the court to the contrary, be deemed to be knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution. Dancing Houses Dancing in 169. Every owner or occupier of a house, building, town at night room, yard, or other place situate in any town, or within two after midnight. hundred yards of any town, who, without permission in [4 of 1972 1 of 1989 writing in that behalf from a magistrate or an officer of 8 of 1997 police, permits any persons to play or dance therein on or to 10 of 1998] any drum, gong, tambour, chac-chac, or other similar instrument of music, at any time in the night after midnight, shall be liable to a fine of not less fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. Power of police 170. Any police constable may enter, without warrant, to enter and seize. any house, building, room, yard, or other place where persons may be playing or dancing in contravention of L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 115 section 169, and may seize and take away all the drums, gongs, tambours, chac-chacs, or other similar instruments of music, and they shall be forfeited. Keeping of Animals, etc. Horse, mule or 171. (1) If any horse, mule, ass or other cattle is at any ass, in public way. time found straying or tied, lying or being at large, or [ 4 of 1972 depastured in any public way or public place, the owner, or 1 of 1989 person for the time being in charge, of the horse, mule, ass or 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] other cattle shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. (2) Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of the horse, mule, ass or other cattle to be dealt with under any statute for the time being in force in relation to animals trespassing. Power to 172. (1) Any police, rural or town constable may destroy rabid or mangy dog destroy any dog or any other animal at large which he has at large. reasonable cause to suspect to be in a rabid state, or any dog [13 of 1933 or any other animal at large which has been bitten by any 8 of 1997] 10 of 1998] dog or other animal which he has reasonable cause to suspect to be in a rabid state, or any dog at large which he has reasonable cause to suspect to be in a mangy state: Provided that a mangy dog shall not be destroyed until it has been kept at the nearest police station for forty- eight hours after its capture and a Government Medical Officer or a Medical Officer of Health or a Public Health Inspector has certified that it is expedient to destroy the dog. (2) If the dog or other animal is confined and the owner or person for the time being in charge of it does not destroy it or cause it to be destroyed, after it has shown evident and distinct symptoms of being in a rabid state or of L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 116 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) having been bitten by any dog or other animal in arabid state, the owner or that person shall be liable to a fine of notless than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. Placing dead 173. Everyone who throws, places, or leaves unburied animal on on or near any public way or public place, or in any public public way [1 of 1989 trench or canal, the carcass of any dead animal or any part 8 of 1997 thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand 10 of 1998] dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars. Blowing horn, 174. Every person in the City of Georgetown or in the etc. town of New Amsterdam who, without the permission of an [6 of 1937] officer of police, blows any horn or rings any bell or uses any noisy instrument for the purpose of calling people together or of announcing any show or entertainment, or of hawking, selling, distributing, or collecting any articles, of whatever description, or of obtaining money or alms, shall be liable to a fine of one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Making of loud 174A. (1) No person shall, in any road, street, public continuous place or land or in any building or premises, by operating or noise [1 of 1989 causing or suffering to be operated any stereo set, juke 9 of 1997 box, radio, wireless loud speaker, gramophone, amplifier, 10 of 1998 automatic piano or similar instrument of music, or by any other means whatsoever, make or cause or suffer to be made any noise which shall be so loud and so continuous or repetitive as to cause a nuisance to occupants of any premises in the neighbourhood. (2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months and on a second or any subsequent conviction to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 117 Prohibition of 174B. (1) A driver of a motor bus or hire car shall not the playing of play or allow anyone to play music in the motor bus or hire loud music in a motor bus or car, whilst the motor bus or hire car is plying its route or hire car. parked in a public place. [15 of 2008] (2) A driver of a motor bus or hire car who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars, nor more than fifteen thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months. (3) In this section – (a) "hire car" means a motor car used or intended to be used for carrying not more than seven passengers for hire or reward – (i) under a contract express or implied for use of the vehicle as a whole or ; (ii) at separate fares stage by stage or stopping to pick up or set down passengers along the line of route; (b) "motor bus" means a motor vehicle constructed and used for carrying not less than eight passengers for hire or reward – (i) under a contract express or implied for use of the vehicle as a whole or ; L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 118 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (ii) at separate fares stage by stage or stopping to pick up or set down passengers along the line of route. TITLE 14 MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES Cruelty to Animals Interpretation 175. In the following provisions relating to cruelty to [1 of 1931] animals— "animal" means any domestic or captive animal; "bull" includes any cow, bullock, heifer, calf, steer or ox; "captive animal" means any animal (not being a domestic animal) of whatever kind of species and whether a quadruped or not, including any bird, fish or reptile which is in captivity, or confinement, or which is maimed, pinioned, or subjected to any appliance or contrivance for the purpose of hindering or preventing its escape from captivity or confinement; "cat" includes kitten; "dog" includes any bitch, sapling or puppy; "domestic animal" means any horse, bull, sheep, pig, goat, dog, cat or fowl or any other animal of whatsoever kind or species and whether a quadruped or not which is tame or which has been or is being L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 119 sufficiently tamed to serve some purpose for the use of man; "fowl" includes any cock, hen, chicken, capon, turkey, goose, gander, duck, drake, guinea fowl, peacock, peahen, swan or pigeon; "goat" includes a kid; "horse" includes any mare, gelding, pony, foal, colt, filly, stallion, mule, jennet or donkey; "pig" includes any boar, hog or sow; "sheep" includes any lamb, ewe or ram. Offences of 176. (1) If any person— cruelty. [1 of 1931 12 of 1953 (a) shall cruelly beat, kick, ill-treat, over- 8 of 1997 ride, over-drive, over-load, torture, 10 of 1998] infuriate, or terrify any animal, or shall cause or procure, or being the owner, permit, any animal to be so used, or shall, by wantonly or unreasonably doing or omitting to do any act, or causing or procuring the commission or omission of any act, cause any unnecessary suffering, or, being the owner, permit any unnecessary suffering to be so caused to any animal; or (b) shall convey or carry, or cause or procure, or, being the owner, permit to be conveyed or carried, any animal in such manner or position as to cause that animal any unnecessary suffering; or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 120 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (c) shall cause, procure, or assist at the fighting or baiting of any animal; or shall keep, use, manage, or act or assist in the management of, any premises or place for the purpose, or partly for the purpose, of fighting or baiting any animal, or shall permit any premises or place to be so kept, managed, or used, or shall receive, or cause or procure any person to receive, money for the admission of any person to such premises or place; or (d) shall wilfully, without any reasonable cause or excuse, administer, or cause or procure, or being the owner permit, such administration of, any poisonous or injurious drug or substance to any animal, or shall wilfully, without any reasonable cause or excuse, cause any such substance to be taken by any animal; or (e) shall subject, or cause or procure, or being the owner permit, to be subjected, any animal to any operation which is performed without due care and humanity, such person shall be guilty of an offence of cruelty and shall be liable to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 121 (2) For the purposes of this section, an owner shall be deemed to have permitted cruelty if he shall have failed to exercise reasonable care and supervision in respect of the protection of the animal therefrom: Provided that, where an owner is convicted of permitting cruelty by reason only of his having failed to exercise such care and supervision, he shall not be liable to imprisonment without the option of a fine. (3) Nothing in this section shall render illegal or shall apply— (a) to the commission or omission of any act in the course of the destruction, or the preparation for destruction, of any animal as food for mankind, unless such destruction or such preparation was accompanied by the infliction of unnecessary suffering; or (b) to the coursing or hunting of any captive animal, unless such animal is liberated in an injured, mutilated, or exhausted condition; but a captive animal shall not, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be coursed or hunted before it is liberated for the purpose of being coursed or hunted, or after it has been recaptured, or if it is under control. Power of court 177. (1) Where the owner of an animal is convicted of to order destruction of an offence of cruelty it shall be lawful for the court, if the animal court is satisfied that it would be cruel to keep the animal [1 of 1931] alive, to direct that the animal be destroyed and to assign the animal to any suitable person for that purpose; and the person to whom such animal is so assigned shall, as soon as possible, destroy such animal, or cause or procure such L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 122 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) animal to be destroyed in his presence without unnecessary suffering. Any reasonable expense incurred in destroying the animal may be ordered by the court to be paid by the owner and any sum so ordered to be paid shall be regarded and dealt with in all respects as if it were a sum awarded by a judgment of the court under the Summary Jurisdiction c. 7:01 (Petty Debt) Act: Provided that, unless the owner assents, no order shall be made under this section except upon the evidence of a duly registered veterinary surgeon. No appeal in (2) No appeal shall lie from an order for the certain cases. destruction of an animal. Power of court 178. If the owner of any animal shall be guilty of to deprive cruelty to the animal, the court may, if it thinks fit, in person addition to any other punishment, deprive such person of convicted of cruelty of the ownership of the animal, and may make such order as to ownership of the disposal of the animal as it thinks fit under the animal. circumstances: [1 of 1931] Provided that no order shall be made under this section unless it is shown by evidence as to a previous conviction under this Act, or as to the character of the owner, or otherwise as to his treatment of the animal, that the animal, if left with the owner, is likely to be exposed to further cruelty. Compensation 179. If any person shall, by cruelty within the meaning for damage of this Act to any animal, do or cause to be done, any done by cruelty to damage or injury to the animal or any person or property, he animal. shall upon conviction for the cruelty be liable upon the [1 of 1931 application of the person aggrieved to be ordered to pay as 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 compensation to the person who shall sustain damage or 10 of 1998] injury as aforesaid such sum not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars as the court L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 123 before whom he is convicted may consider reasonable, provided that this section shall not— (a) prevent the taking of any other legal proceedings in respect of any such damage or injury, so that a person be not twice proceeded against in respect of the same claim; nor (b) affect the liability of any person to be proceeded against and punished under this Act for an offence of cruelty. Animals 180. Any person who detains an animal before it is detained before being sent to sent to the pound shall, if necessary, while the animal is so pound detained supply it with food and water, and if he fails to do [1 of 1931 so, he shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand 12 of 1953 1 of 1989 dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] Poisoned grain 181. If any person— and flesh. [1 of 1931 12 of 1989 (a) shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or 8 of 1997 give away, or cause or procure any 10 of 1998] person to sell, offer, or expose for sale or give away, or knowingly be a party to the sale or offering or exposing for sale or giving away of any grain or seed which has been rendered poisonous except for bona fide use in agriculture; or (b) shall knowingly put or place, or cause or procure any person to put or place, or knowingly be a party to the putting or placing, in or upon any land or L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 124 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) building any poison, or any fluid or edible matter (not being sown seed or grain) which has been rendered poisonous, such person shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars: Provided that, in any proceedings under paragraph (b), it shall be a defence that the poison was placed by the accused for the purpose of destroying insects and other invertebrates, rats, mice, or other small ground vermin, where such is found to be necessary in the interests of public health, agriculture, or the preservation of other animals, domestic or wild, or for the purpose of manuring the land. Use of dogs 182. Any person using, or causing or procuring or for purpose of being the owner, permitting to be used, any dog for the draught [1 of 1931 purpose of drawing or helping to draw any cart, carriage, 12 of 1953 truck, or barrow on any public highway or elsewhere (except 4 of 1972 in the case of the use in play by a child of a dog with a toy- 8 of 1997] cart) shall be liable to a fine of not less than two thousand five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars for the first offence, and to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars for the second or any subsequent offence. Inspection of 183. Any person who sets, or causes or procures to be traps set, any spring trap for the purpose of catching any animal or [1 of 1931 12 of 1953 which is so placed as to be likely to catch any animal, shall 8 of 1997 inspect or cause some competent person to inspect the trap at 10 of 1998] reasonable intervals of time and at least once every day between sunrise and sunset, and if any person shall fail to comply with this section he shall be liable to a fine of not less than two thousand five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 125 Injured 184. (1) If a police officer or constable finds any animal animals so diseased or so severely injured or in such a physical [1 of 1931 condition that, in his opinion, having regard to the means available for removing the animal, there is no possibility of removing without cruelty, he shall, if the owner is absent or refuses to consent to the destruction of the animal, at once summon a duly registered veterinary surgeon and if it appears by the certificate of such surgeon that the animal is mortally injured, or so severely injured, or so diseased, or in such a physical condition, that it is cruel to keep it alive, it shall be lawful for the police officer or constable, without the consent of the owner to slaughter the animal, or cause, or procure it to be slaughtered, with such instruments or appliances and with such precautions and in such manner, as to inflict as little suffering as practicable, and, if the slaughter takes place on any public highway, to remove the carcass or cause or procure it to be removed therefrom. (2) If any veterinary surgeon summoned under this section certifies that the injured animal can without cruelty be removed, it shall be the duty of the person in charge of the animal to cause it forthwith to be removed with as little suffering as possible, and if that person fails so to do, the police officer may, without the consent of that person, cause the animal forthwith to be so removed. (3) Any expense which may be reasonably incurred by any police officer or constable in carrying out the provisions of this section (including the expenses of any veterinary surgeon summoned by the police officer or constable and whether the animals slaughtered under this section or not) may be recovered from the owner under the Summary 7:01 Jurisdiction (Petty Debt) Act. (4) For the purposes of this section the expression "animal" means any horse, bull, sheep, goat or pig. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 126 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Detention of 185. Where a person having charge of a vehicle or vehicle or animal is apprehended by a police officer or constable for an animal [1 of 1931] offence under this Act, it shall be lawful for that or any other police officer or constable to take charge of such vehicle or animal, and to deposit the same in some place of safe custody until the termination of the proceedings or until the court shall direct such vehicle or animal to be delivered to the person charged or the owner and the reasonable costs of such detention, including the reasonable costs of veterinary treatment, where such treatment is required, shall in the event of a conviction in respect of the said animal be recoverable from the owner under the Summary Jurisdiction c.7:01. (Petty Debt) Act, or, where the owner himself is convicted, shall be part of the costs of the case. Owners to 186. (1) Where proceedings are instituted under this produce Act, it shall be lawful for the court to issue a summons animals if so required directed to the owner of the animal requiring him to produce [1 of 1931 either at, or at any time before, the hearing of the case, as 1of 1989 may be stated in the summons, the animal for the inspection 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] of the court, if such production is possible without cruelty. (2) Where a summons is issued under subsection (1), and the owner fails to comply therewith without satisfactory excuse, he shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars for the first occasion and of not less than three thousand dollars nor more than six thousand dollars for the second or any subsequent occasion on which he so fails, and may be required to pay the costs of any adjournment rendered necessary by his failure. Surgical Treatment of Animals Provisions as 187. (1) Everyone who subjects, or causes or procures, to operations on animals or, being the owner, permits, to be subjected, an animal to an [1 of 1931 operation contrary to this section shall be liable in respect of 8 of 1997 L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 127 10 of 1998] the first offence to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars and in respect of any second or subsequent offence to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months. (2) No horse, bull, dog or cat, shall be subjected to any operation— (a) specified in classes A, B, or C, Second respectively in the Second Schedule, Schedule unless the animal during the whole of the operation is under the influence of some general anaesthetic of sufficient power to prevent it feeling pain; (b) specified in classes D, E, or F, respectively in the Second Schedule Second Schedule. hereto, unless the animal during the whole of the operation is under the influence of some general anaesthetic or some local anaesthetic which is, in either case, of sufficient power to prevent it feeling pain. (3) (a) The Minister may by order— (i) add any other operation to the operations specified in any of the classes in the Second Schedule hereto, and any operation so added shall be deemed to be an operation specified in that class; (ii) transfer an operation from one class to another; 8 of 1997 L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 128 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (iii) extend any provision of this Act to any domestic animal to which the provision does not at the time apply, with the modifications or additions appearing to the Minister to be necessary; and (iv) declare any substance to be a suitable general anaesthetic or suitable local anaesthetic for the purposes of this Act, and any substance so declared shall be deemed to be a general anaesthetic or local anaesthetic, as the case may be, of sufficient power to prevent the animal feeling pain if properly applied. (b) The draft of any order aforesaid shall be published in the Gazette for a period of three weeks before it is made, and any person may make representations to the Minister with respect to the draft order. 188. Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1997. 18 9. Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1997. 19 0. Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1997. 19 1. Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1997. 19 2. Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1997. 193. Repealed by Act No. 18 of 1997. Detention of Goods L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 129 Power of the 194. (1) On complaint made by any persons claiming court with to be entitled to the property or possession of any article or respect to unlawful thing detained by another, the value of the article or thing not detention being greater than fifty thousand dollars and not being a deed of articles or other document relating to property of greater value than [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 fifty thousand dollars, the court may inquire into the title 10 of 1998] thereto, or to the right of possession thereof, and if it appears to the court, after demand has been made therefor by the person by whom the complaint has been made, that the article or thing has been detained without just cause by the person against whom the complaint has been made, or that the person detaining the article or thing has a lien upon or a right to detain it by way of security for the payment of money or the performance of any act by the owner thereof, the court may order the article or thing to be delivered to the owner thereof, or to the person entitled to the possession thereof, either absolutely or upon tender of the amount appearing to the court to be due by the owner, or by the person entitled to the possession thereof, or upon the performance, or upon the tender and refusal of the performance, of the act for the performance of which the article or thing has been detained as security, or, if that act cannot be performed, then upon tender of amends for non-performance. (2) Everyone who refuses or neglects to deliver the article or thing according to the order shall pay as amends to the person aggrieved the full value thereof. (3) The order shall not prevent any person from recovering the article or thing so delivered by action from the person to whose possession it comes by virtue of the order. Disposal or 195. Every artificer, workman, journeyman, retention by apprentice, servant, labourer, or other person, who workman of unlawfully disposes of, or retains in his possession, without article committed to the consent of the person by whom he has been hired, his care retained, or employed, any article or thing not exceeding fifty [1 of 1989 thousand dollars in value, committed to his care or charge 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] shall be liable to a fine of thirty thousand dollars, and also to pay as amends to the person aggrieved the full value of the article or thing so disposed of or not returned uninjured. Use of Fire L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 130 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Negligent use 196. Everyone who causes any loss, damage, or injury of fire to the property of another by the negligent use of fire shall be [1 of 1989 8 of 1997 liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more 10 of 1998] than twenty thousand dollars. Regulation of Judicial Proceedings Obstruction or 197. Everyone who— insulting magistrate or justice. (a) obstructs, prevents, or in any way [1 of 1989 disturbs or molests, any magistrate or 8 of 1997 justice of the peace, or any person 10 of 1998] employed by him, in the execution of his duties under this written law or under any other written law; or (b) uses any threatening, abusive, or insulting language, or sends any threatening, abusive, or insulting message or letter to any magistrate or justice of the peace, in respect of his duties, shall on conviction thereof before any magistrate, not being the magistrate so obstructed, prevented, disturbed, molested, threatened, abused, or insulted, be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars. Prohibition taking 198. (1) No person shall— photographs, etc,. in court. (a) take or attempt to take in any court any [30 of 1954 photograph, or with a view to 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 publication make or attempt to make 10 of 1998] in any court any portrait or sketch, of any person, being a judge, registrar, magistrate, or coroner of the court or a L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 131 juror or a witness in or a party to any proceedings before the court, whether civil or criminal; or (b) publish any photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made in contravention of the foregoing provisions of this section or any reproduction thereof; and if any person acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. (2) For the purposes of this section a photograph, portrait or sketch shall be deemed to be a photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made in court if it is taken or made in the court-room or in the building or in the precincts of the building in which the court is held, or if it is a photograph, portrait or sketch taken or made of the person while he is entering or leaving the court-room or any such building or precincts as aforesaid. (3) In this section— "court" means any court of justice including any place where an inquest or inquiry is being held by a coroner; "judge" means a judge of the Supreme Court sitting with or without a jury or in Chambers; "registrar" means the Registrar of the Supreme Court and includes any person lawfully discharging the functions of the Registrar in reference to any cause or matter in the Supreme Court and the Clerk of any court; L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 132 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) the expressions "coroner", "inquest" and "inquiry" shall have the respective meanings assigned to them by section 2 of the Coroner‘s Act. Restriction of 199. In this section— publication of reports of judicial "judicial proceedings" includes proceedings before proceedings any court, tribunal, or person having by law power to [1 of 1989 10 of 1998] hear, receive and examine evidence on oath. (2) It shall not be lawful to print or publish, or cause or procure to be printed or published— (a) in relation to any judicial proceedings any indecent matter or indecent medical, surgical or physiological details being matter or details the publication of which would be calculated to injure public morals; (b) in relation to any judicial proceedings for dissolution of marriage, for nullity of marriage, or for judicial separation, or for restitution of conjugal rights, any particulars other than the following, that is to say— (i) the names, addresses and occupations of the parties and witnesses; (ii) a concise statement of the charges, defences and counter- charges in support of which evidence has been given; (iii) submissions on any point of law L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 133 arising in the course of the proceedings, and the decision of the court thereon; (iv) the judgment of the court and observations made by the judge in giving judgment: Provided that nothing in this part of this paragraph shall be held to permit the publication of anything contrary to the provisions of paragraph (a). (3) If any person acts in contravention of the provisions of this Act, he shall in respect of each offence be liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor more than thirty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months: Provided that no person, other than a proprietor, editor, master printer or publisher, shall be liable to be convicted under this section. (4) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be commenced by any person without the sanction of the Director of Public Prosecutions. (5) Nothing in this section shall apply to the printing of any pleading, transcript of evidence or other document for use in connection with any judicial proceedings or the communication thereof to persons concerned in the proceedings, or to the printing or publishing of any notice or report in pursuance of the directions of the court; or to the printing or publishing of any matter in any separate volume or part of any bona fide series of law reports which does not form part of any other publication and consists solely of reports of proceedings in courts of law, or in any publication of a technical character bona fide intended for circulation among members of the legal or medical L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 134 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) professions. False Information to Public Officers False informa- 200. Every person who gives to any public officer any tion with information orally or in writing which he knows or believes to intent to cause a public officer be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely to use his that he will thereby cause, such public officer to use the lawful lawful power power of such public officer to the injury or annoyance of any to the injury of another person, or to do or omit anything which such public officer person. ought not to do or omit if the true state of facts respecting [23 of 1949 which such information is given were known by him, shall be 1 of 1989 8 of 1997 liable to a fine of not less than fifteen thousand dollars nor 10 of 1998] more than thirty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for eighteen months. Intimidation of Workers Intimidation or 201. Everyone who, for the purpose of compelling any obstruction of worker other person to conduct himself in a particular manner in [4 of 1972 respect of his business or employment, or to do any act, or to 1 of 1989 abstain from doing any lawful act of any kind, injures, 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] removes, or conceals any tools, materials, or other things used by him in his business, or employment, or uses any violence to him or to any other person, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars or to imprisonment for twelve months. Attempted Suicide Attempt to 202. Everyone who attempts to commit suicide shall be commit guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment suicide. for twelve months. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 135 Currency Notes Interpretation. 203. In the two next ensuing sections the expression [15 of 1937] ‚currency note‛ means a currency note issued under the Bank of Guyana Act or any other Act for the time being in force or issued by or on behalf of the Government of any country outside Guyana and whether issued by any body corporate, company or person carrying on the business of bankers or not and also includes any note (by whatever name called) which is legal tender in the country in which it is issued. Imitation of 204. If any person makes or causes to be made or uses currency notes. for any purpose whatsoever, or utters any document [15 of 1937 1 of 1989 purporting to be or in any way resembling or so nearly 8 of 1997 resembling as to be calculated to deceive, any currency note 10 of 1998] or any part thereof, he shall be liable on conviction in respect of each such document to a fine of not less than thirty thousand dollars nor more than sixty thousand dollars and the court shall order the document in respect of which the offence was committed and any copies of that document and any plates, blocks, dies, or other instruments used for or capable of being used for printing or reproducing any such document, which are in the possession of such offender, to be delivered to the Accountant General or to any person authorised by him to receive them. Mutilating or 205. Whosoever without lawful authority or excuse defacing currency notes (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused) mutilates, [15 of 1937 cuts, tears or perforates with holes any currency note or in any 1 of 1989 way defaces a currency note whether by writing, printing, 8 of 1997 10 of 1998] drawing or stamping thereon, or by attaching or affixing thereto anything in the nature or form of an advertisement, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 136 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) s.101 FIRST SCHEDULE [24 of 1930] I (name in full) make oath and say as follows – 1. My true place of abode is (here set out in full together with name of country) and my postal address is the same ( or set out in full where different). 2. I am a (set out occupation, e.g., merchant, clerk, secretary, etc.) and I am the president, or director or partner or manager, or foreign sales manager, or secretary, etc‘, of (state the name of the company and whether incorporated or not ) or I am the proprietor of the business carried on under the name of (set out name). 3. The (state the name of the company or firm or business) carries on the business of (state the nature of the business) at (state address in full). 4. On the .........................day of ................. .......20........., there was received by post at the office of (set out the name as in the latter part of paragraph 2) and delivered to me in the ordinary course of business on the ..................day of ...............20.........., the document which is now produced and shown to me and marked with the letter ‚A‛ (if more documents than one were the envelope they should be marked ‚A1,‛ ‚A2‛ etc.) and where the envelope is produced which was (or were) enclosed in the same envelope which is now produced and shown to me marked ‚B‛ 5. (Where documents have been received subsequently referring to the order the receipt of each should be set out in a separate paragraph thus) on the ..............day of .............20........., there was received at the office of (as in paragraph 4) and delivered to me in the ordinary course of business on the ...................day of ................20............. the document which is now L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 137 produced and shown to me marked with the letter ‚C‛ (if more than one as in paragraph 4) which was or were enclosed in the envelope now produced and shown to me marked ‚D‛. ............................... (Signature of deponent) Sworn before me C...............D...................at...................................................... .............................................................this ...........day of....................................20................ ........................................................... (Signature of Notary, etc.). s.187 [1 of 1931]. SECOND SCHEDULE A–HORSES, MARES, GELDINGS, COLTS, FILLIES, MULES, JENNETS AND DONKEYS 1. Operation for quitter. 2 Operation for stripping the wall or sole of the hoof. 3. Operation for poll evil. 4. Operation for fistulous withers. 5. Ovariotomy. 6. Laparotomy. 7. Amputation of penis, mamma, uterus. 8 Extraction of permanent molar teeth. 9. Operations for scrotal and inguinal hernia. 10. Operations for scirrhous cord and extensive tumours. B—DOGS AND CATS 1. Castration in animals six months old and upwards.2. Ovariotomy. 3. Laparotomy. 4. Amputation of penis, mamma, uterus. 5. Operations for scrotal and inguinal hernia. C—BULLS, COWS, OXEN, STEERS, HEIFERS, CALVES 1. Ovariotomy. 2. Operations for actinomyosis. 3. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA 138 Cap. 8:02 Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Laparotomy. 4. Amputation of penis, mamma, uterus. 5. Dishorning cattle over one month old. D—HORSES, MARES, GELDINGS, COLTS, FILLIES, MULES, JENNETS AND DONKEYS 1. Neurectomy or unnerving. 2. Enucleation of the eyeball. 3. Line and point firing. 4. Urethrotomy. 6. Docking of the tail. 7. Trephining. E—DOGS AND CATS 1. Enucleation of the eyeball. 2. Operation for umbilical hernia. 3. Urethrotomy. 4. Docking of the tail and clipping or rounding of ears of animals over six months old. F—BULLS, COWS, OXEN, STEERS, HEIFERS, CALVES 1. Enucleation of the eyeball. 2. Operation for umbilical hernia. 3. Rumenotomy. 4. Urethrotomy. 5. Trephining. L.R.O. 1/2012 LAWS OF GUYANA Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Cap. 8:02 139 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION Proc. 5/1942 PRAEDIAL LARCENY DISTRICTS ORDER 12/1943 made under section 72(2) Citation. 1. This Order may be cited as the Praedial Larceny Districts Order. Declaration of 2. The districts designated in the Schedule are specified districts. hereby declared to be specified districts within the meaning of section 72(1) of the Act. SCHEDULE (1) The East Demerara Magisterial Districts; (2) The Georgetown Magisterial Districts; (3) The North Western Magisterial District; and (4) Those portions of the Berbice, West Demerara and Essequibo Magisterial Districts situate north of imaginary straight line between the Epira mission on the Courantyne River and the confluence of the Puruni and Mazaruni rivers and between that confluence and the confluence of the Akarabisi and Cuyuni Rivers; (5) The Courantyne Magisterial District L.R.O. 1/2012