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An Act to enable effect to be given in Botswana to certain international conventions made at Geneva on the 12th of August, 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.
Punishment of Offenders Against Conventions
3. (1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside Botswana,commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of, any such grave breach of any of the
scheduled conventions as is referred to in the following articles respectively of those conventions, that is to say-
An Act to enable effect to be given in Botswana to certain international conventions made at Geneva on the 12th of August, 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.
Punishment of Offenders Against Conventions
3 (2) In the case of an offence under this section committed outside Botswana, a person may be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished therefor in any place in Botswana as if the offence had been committed in that place.
(3) A Subordinate Court shall have no jurisdiction to try an offence under this section, and criminal proceedings for such an offence shall not be instituted except by or on behalf of the Attorney-General.