Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Crimes Act 1958 - SECT 9

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

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 defensive homicide or of being accessory to murder or
manslaughter or child homicide or defensive homicide, 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.