Chapter 1
Definitions, Objects and Interpretation of an Act (ss 1-3)

3 Objects of Act

The objects of this Act are:

(d) to enable, as far as possible and in accordance with the principle of complementarity as referred to in Article 1 of the Statute, the national prosecuting authority of the Republic to prosecute and the High Courts of the Republic to adjudicate in cases brought against any person accused of having committed a crime in the Republic and beyond the borders of the Republic in certain circumstances.

CHAPTER 2
JURISDICTION OF SOUTH AFRICAN COURTS AND INSTITUTION OF PROSECUTIONS IN SOUTH AFRICAN COURTS IN RESPECT OF CRIMES (ss 4-5)

[a27y2002s4]4 Jurisdiction of South African courts in respect of crimes

(3) In order to secure the jurisdiction of a South African court for purposes of this Chapter, any person who commits a crime contemplated in subsection (1) outside the territory of the Republic, is deemed to have committed that crime in the territory of the Republic if-

(a) that person is a South African citizen; or

(b) that person is not a South African citizen but is ordinarily resident in the Republic; or

(c) that person, after the commission of the crime, is present in the territory of the Republic; or

(d) that person has committed the said crime against a South African citizen or against a person who is ordinarily resident in the Republic.

CHAPTER 5
MISCELLANEOUS (ss 33-40)

37 Offences against administration of justice in terms of Statute

(1) Any person who-

(a) in the Republic; or

(b) outside the territory of the Republic and who-

(i) is a South African citizen;

(ii) is not a South African citizen but who is ordinarily resident in the Republic;

(iii) after the commission of the offence, is present in the territory of the Republic;