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Computer Misuse Act 1990 (UK) Section 11

11.(1) A magistrates' court shall have jurisdiction to try an offence
       under section 1 above if -

      (a) the accused was within its commission area at the time when he did
          the act which caused the computer to perform the function; or
      (b) any computer containing any program or data to which the accused
          secured or intended to secure unauthorised access by doing that act
          was in its commission area at that time.

   (2) Subject to subsection (3) below, proceedings for an offence under
       section 1 above may be brought within a period of six months from the
       date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to
       warrant proceedings came to his knowledge.

   (3) No such proceedings shall be brought by virtue of this section more
       than three years after the commission of the offence.

   (4) For the purposes of this section, a certificate signed by or on behalf
       of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in
       his opinion to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge shall be
       conclusive evidence of that fact.

   (5) A certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be
       deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.

   (6) In this section "commission area" has the same meaning as in the
       Justices of the Peace Act 1979.

   (7) This section does not extend to Scotland.



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