'Jurisdiction' in document 'Slovakia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART ONE
GENERAL PART

CHAPTER ONE
SCOPE OF THE ACT AND FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Title One
Criminal Code and its Scope

Section 3
Territorial Applicability

(1) This Act shall be applied to determine the criminal liability for an act committed on the territory of the Slovak Republic.

(2) The criminal offence is considered as having been committed on the territory of the Slovak Republic even if the offender

a) committed the act, at least in part, on its territory, if the actual breach of or threat to an interest protected under this Act took place or was intended to take place, in whole or in part, outside of its territory, or
b) committed the act outside of the territory of the Slovak Republic, if the actual breach of or threat to an interest protected under this Act was intended to take place on its territory, or such a consequence should have taken place, at least in part, on its territory.

(3) This Act shall also be applied to determine the criminal liability for an act committed outside of the territory of the Slovak Republic aboard a vessel navigating under the State flag of the Slovak Republic, or aboard an aircraft entered in the aircraft register of the Slovak Republic.


PART ONE
GENERAL PART

CHAPTER ONE
SCOPE OF THE ACT AND FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Title One
Criminal Code and its Scope

Personal Applicability

Section 5a

This Act shall be applied to determine the criminal liability for the criminal offence of illicit manufacturing and possession of narcotics or psychotropic substances, poisons or precursors, and trafficking in them (Section 171 and 172) forgery, fraudulent alteration and illicit manufacturing of money and securities (Section 270), uttering counterfeit, fraudulently altered and illicitly manufactured money and securities (Section 271), manufacturing and possession of instruments for counterfeiting and forgery (Section 272), forgery, fraudulent alteration and illicit manufacturing of duty stamps, postage stamps, stickers and postmarks (Section 274), forgery and fraudulent alteration of control technical measures for labelling goods (Section 275), establishing, masterminding and supporting a terrorist group or its member (Section 297), illicit manufacturing and possession of nuclear materials, radioactive substances, hazardous chemicals and hazardous biological agents and toxins (Section 298 and 299), plotting against the Slovak Republic (Section 312), terror (Section 313 and 314), destructive actions (Section 315 and 316), sabotage (Section 317), espionage (Section 318), assaulting a public authority (Section 321), assaulting a public official (Section 323), countefeiting and altering a public instrument, official seal, official seal-off, official emblem and official mark (Section 352), jeopardising the safety of confidential and restricted Information (Section 353), smuggling of migrants (Section 355), endangering peace (Section 417), genocide (Section 418), terrorism and some forms of participation on terrorism (section 419), brutality (Section 425), using prohibited weapons and unlawful warfare (Section 426), plundering in the war area (Section 427), misuse of internationally recognised and national symbols (Section 428), war atrocities (Section 431), persecution of civilians (Section 432), lawlessness in the wartime (Section 433), even if such act was committed outside of the territory of the Slovak Republic by an alien who has not his/her permanent residence on the territory of the Slovak Republic.