Section 40: Offence committed on a journey.

An offence committed whilst the offender is in the course of performing a journey or voyage may be enquiredinto or tried in a District through or into which the offender, or the person against whom, or the thing in respect of which, the offence was committed, passed in the course of that journey or voyage. Offences at sea or 41. When a person is accused of the commission of an offence at sea or elsewhere out of Sierra Leone, which elsewhere out of Sierra Leone. according to law may be dealt with in Sierra Leone, the offence may, subject to the provisions of section 53, be enquired into and tried at any place in Sierra Leone to which the accused person is first brought or to which he may taken thereafter. Offences by public officers abroad and offences on aircraft. No. 22 of 1964. 1965.