Provision for trial for murder or manslaughter in Victoria where death or cause of death only happens in Victoria
9 Provision for trial for murder or manslaughter in Victoria where death or cause of death only happens in Victoria
No. 6103 s. 9.
S. 9 amended by Nos 9576 s. 11(1), 77/2005 s. 8(3)(a)(i)(ii), 7/2008 s. 7(3)(a), 63/2014 s. 3(2), 16/2020 s. 6.
Where any person being criminally stricken poisoned or otherwise hurt upon the sea or at any place out of Victoria dies of such stroke poisoning or hurt in Victoria, or being criminally stricken poisoned or otherwise hurt at any place in Victoria dies of such stroke poisoning or hurt upon the sea or at any place out of Victoria, every offence committed in respect of any such case, whether the same amounts to the offence of murder or of manslaughter or of child homicide or of homicide by firearm or of being accessory to murder or manslaughter or child homicide or homicide by firearm, may be dealt with inquired of tried determined and punished in Victoria in the same manner in all respects as if such offence had been wholly committed in Victoria.
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