South Africa

Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Act No. 27 of 2002)

Chapter 2
Jurisdiction of South African Courts and Institution od Prosecutions in South African Courts in Respect of Crimes (ss 4-5)

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

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

Keywords

Passive personality jurisdiction



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