Part I. General Provisions

Chapter 1. Applicability of Norwegian criminal law

Section 12.
Unless it is otherwise specially provided, Norwegian criminal law shall be applicable to acts committed :

3. abroad by any Norwegian national or any person domiciled in Norway when the act

a) is one of those dealt with in chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 or 33 of this code or sections 135, 141, 142, 144, 145 second paragraph, 145 b, 147 a, 147 b, 162 c, 169, 192 to 199, 202, 203, 204 a, 222 to 225, 227 to 235, 238, 239, 242 to 245, 291, 292, 294 No. 2, 317, 326 to 328, 330, last paragraph, 338, 342, 367 to 370, or 423 and in any case when it
b) is a felony or misdemeanour against the Norwegian State or Norwegian state authority,
c) is also punishable according to the law of the country in which it is committed, or
d) is committed in relation to the EFTA Court of Justice and is included among those dealt with in section 163, cf. section 167 and section 165, of this code, or sections 205 to 207 of the Courts of Justice Act ;
e) is punishable pursuant to section 5 of Act of 6 May 1994 No. 10 relating to the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention,
f) shall be punishable in accordance with Article 113 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 (damage to submarine cables and pipelines),
g) is punishable pursuant to section 5 of Act of 17 July 1998 No. 54 relating to the implementation of the Convention on the prohibition of the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction, or
h) is punishable pursuant to Act of 15 December 1995 No. 74 relating to a prohibition against female genital mutilation ;

Article 12
Preconditions to the exercise of jurisdiction
2. In the case of article 13, paragraph (a) or (c), the Court may exercise its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are Parties to this Statute or have accepted the jurisdiction of the Court in accordance with paragraph 3:
(a) The State on the territory of which the conduct in question occurred or, if the crime was committed on board a vessel or aircraft, the State of registration of that vessel or aircraft;
(b) The State of which the person accused of the crime is a national.