'Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings' in document 'Ethiopia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART I

GENERAL PART

BOOK I

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

TITLE I

CRIMINAL LAW AND ITS SCOPE

CHAPTER II

SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF THE LAW

Section II.- Conditions as to Place

Sub-section II.- Subsidiary Application

Article 18.- Other Crimes Committed Outside Ethiopia .

(1) This Code shall also apply to any person who has committed a crime outside Ethiopia against an Ethiopian national or to any Ethiopian national who has committed outside Ethiopia a crime of another kind than those specified in the foregoing Articles, if the criminal was not tried in the foreign country for the crime, provided that:
(a) the act to be tried is prohibited by the law of the State where it was committed and by Ethiopian law; and
(b) it is of sufficient gravity under the latter law to justify extradition .