11 Certain offences committed outside Scotland
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

11  Certain offences committed outside Scotland

(1)     Any [relevant person] who in a country outside the United Kingdom does any act or makes any omission which if done or made in Scotland would constitute the crime of murder or of culpable homicide shall be guilty of the same crime and subject to the same punishment as if the act or omission had been done or made in Scotland.

(2)     Any [relevant person] employed in the service of the Crown who, in a foreign country, when acting or purporting to act in the course of his employment, does any act or makes any omission which if done or made in Scotland would constitute an offence punishable on indictment shall be guilty of the same offence and subject to the same punishment, as if the act or omission had been done or made in Scotland.

[(2A)     Any relevant person who in a country outside the United Kingdom does any act which—

(a)     constitutes an offence under the law in force in that

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