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Section 8: Venue.
Status not yet checkedPerjury Act, 1911., Sierra Leone
Where an offence against this Act or any offence punishable
Application
of Vexatious
Indictments
Act, 1859.
22 & 23 Viet.
c. 17.
14 & 15 Viet.
c. 100.
Form of
indictment.
as perjury or as subornation of perjury under any other Act of
Parliament is committed in any place either on sea or land
outside the United Kingdom, the offender may be proceeded
against, indicted, tried, and punished in any county or place
in England where he was apprehended or is in custody as if
the offence had been committed in that county or place; and,
for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or
punishment of the offence, it shall be deemed to have been
committed in that county or place.
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