Paragraph 3 Application of section 2

(1)

Section 2 applies to acts done in the Territory or elsewhere.

(2)

So far as it applies to acts done outside the Territory, section 2 applies to United Kingdom nationals, and bodies incorporated under the law of the Territory.

(3)

For the purposes of this section a United Kingdom national is an individual who is—

(a)

a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen,

(b)

a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981^f1 is a British subject, or

(c)

a British protected person within the meaning of that Act.

(4)

Proceedings for an offence committed under section 2 outside the Territory may be taken, and the offence may for incidental purposes be treated as having been committed, in any place in the Territory.

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Footnotes

f1: 1981 c. 61.