Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Act 2019

Number 6 of 2019

CRIMINAL LAW (EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION) ACT 2019

REVISED

Updated to 1 November 2023

This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Act 2019. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.

All Acts up to and including the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (28/2023), enacted 31 October 2023, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 525 of 2023), made 31 October 2023, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

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Number 6 of 2019


CRIMINAL LAW (EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION) ACT 2019

REVISED

Updated to 1 November 2023


CONTENTS

1. Definitions

2. Application of Act

3. Conduct engaged in outside State

4. Amendment of Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008

5. Short title and commencement

SCHEDULE

Text of Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence done at Istanbul on 11 May 2011



Number 6 of 2019


CRIMINAL LAW (EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION) ACT 2019

REVISED

Updated to 1 November 2023


An Act to extend the criminal law of the State to certain conduct engaged in outside the State and in that regard to give effect to certain provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence done at Istanbul on 11 May 2011; for that purpose to amend the Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Act 2008; and to provide for related matters.

[5th March, 2019]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: