Part I
Preliminary Provisions and Enforcement of the Act

Chapter II
Enforcement of the Act

Offences committed within the Sudan

5.(1) The provisions of this Act shall apply to every offence committed wholly or partly in the Sudan.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, definition of the Sudan includes its air space, its territorial waters, and all Sudanese ships and aircrafts wherever they are.

(3) The provisions of sections 78(1), 79, 85, 126, 139(1), 146(1), (2) and (3), 157, 168 and 171 shall not apply to the Southern States, unless the accused himself requests the application of the said provisions on him, or the legislative body concerned decides to the contrary.


Offences committed outside the Sudan
6.(1) The provisions of this Act shall apply to every person who commits :

(a) outside the Sudan an act which makes him a principal or joint offender in any of the following offences :-
(i) offences against the state;
(ii) offences relating to the disciplined forces;
(iii) offences relating to counterfeiting coins, or revenue stamps, where the offender is found in the Sudan;

(b) in the Sudan a joint act associated with an act committed outside the Sudan which is an offence in the Sudan, and is also an offence under the law of the state where the act is committed.

(2) A person who has committed outside the Sudan any of the offences punishable in the Sudan, shall not be punished in the Sudan, where it is proved that such person has been tried outside the Sudan before a competent court and has served his sentence, or that he has been declared innocent by such court.


Offences committed by a Sudanese
7. A Sudanese who has committed outside the Sudan an act which makes him a principal or joint offender to an offence falling under the provisions of this Act shall be punished when he returns to the Sudan if the act constitutes an offence and also, under the law of the state where the act is done, unless it is proved that such a Sudanese was tried outside the Sudan before a competent court and has served his sentence, or has been found not guilty by such court.