Section 38, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

Subject to the Courts Act, 1965 and to the powers of transferunder section 42, the place for trial of offences by Court other than the High Court shall be determined according to the following rules- 20 21 General authority of court to bring before it. Form 5 Defendant to be remitted or brought in certain cases to another inquired into in any part of Sierra Leone Removal under Form 1 Trial of cases by Court other than High (a) an offence shall be tried in the Judicial District in which it was committed; (b) where a person is accused of the commission of an offence by reason of anything which has been done or which has been omitted to be done, and of any consequence which has ensued, the offence may be tried in a district in which the act was done or omitted to be done or any consequence that has ensued; (c) where an act is an offence by reason of its relation to another act, which is also an offence, or which would be an offence if the doer were capable of committing an offence, a charge of the first offence may be tried in the District in which either act was done; (d) where - (i) it is uncertain in which of several Districts an offence was committed; (ii) an offence is committed partly in one District and partly in another; (iii) an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more Districts than one; or (iv) an offence consists of several acts done in different Districts, the offence may be tried in any one of those Districts.