Section 41, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) A public officer or a person holding an office in respectof which the salary is provided from the Consolidated Fund or directly out of monies approved by Parliament, who commits outside Sierra Leone, when acting or purporting to act in the course of his duties, any act, which if committed in Sierra Leone would be an offence, commits an offence of the same nature and subject to the same punishment as if the act had been committed in Sierra Leone. (2) A person who commits an offence on an aircraft or does an act which if done in Sierra Leone would be an offence, commits an offence of the same nature, and shall be subject to the same punishment, as if the act had been committed in Sierra Leone. (3) A person may be tried and punished for an offence under this section in any part of Sierra Leone in which he is apprehended or is in custody, as if the offence had been committed in that part of Sierra Leone and the offence shall for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment be deemed to have been committed in that part of Sierra Leone.