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act or omission constitutes an offence at the place of its commission, has jurisdiction in
respect of that offence if the person to be charged—
(a)
is a citizen of the Republic;
(b)
is ordinarily resident in the Republic;
(c)
was arrested in the territory of the Republic, or in its territorial waters or on board
a ship or aircraft registered or required to be registered in the Republic at the
time the offence was committed;
(d)
is a company, incorporated or registered as such under any law, in the Republic;
or
(e)
any body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, in the Republic.
(3)
Any act or omission alleged to constitute an offence under
this Act and which is committed outside the Republic by a person, other than a person
contemplated in subsection (2), is, regardless of whether or not the act or omission
constitutes an offence or not at the place of its commission, deemed to have also been
committed in the Republic if that—
(a)
act or omission affects or is intended to affect a public body, a business or any
other person in the Republic;
(b)
person is found to be in South Africa; and
(c)
person is for one or other reason not extradited by South Africa or if there is no
application to extradite that person.
(4)
Where a person is charged with attempting, conspiring,
aiding, abetting, inducing, inciting, instigating, instructing, commanding or procuring to
commit an offence or as an accessory after the offence, the offence is deemed to have
been committed not only at the place where the act was committed, but also at every
place where the person acted or, in case of an omission, should have acted.
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