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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BOOK I
GENERAL PROVISIONS

TITLE i
PRELIMINARY MATTERS

8.Application of Code to offences committed in The Bahamas.

This Code applies to every person who is in The Bahamas at the time of his doing any act or making any
omission which constitutes an offence .

9. Acts done partly beyond the jurisdiction.

When an act, which, if wholly done within the jurisdiction of the court, would be an offence against this Code, is done partly within and partly beyond the jurisdiction, every person who within the jurisdiction does or abets any part of such act may be tried and punished under this Code in the same manner as if such act had been done wholly within the jurisdiction .

BOOK I
GENERAL

TITLE ii
GENERAL AND SPECIAL RULES OF CRIMINAL LAW

14. Provisions relating to causing an event.

(4) If a person beyond the jurisdiction of the courts causes an involuntary agent to cause an event within the jurisdiction, he shall be deemed to have caused the event within the jurisdiction .