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(1)Any British citizen or British subject 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 British citizen or British subject 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.
(3)A person may be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished for an offence to which this section applies—
(a)in any sheriff court district in Scotland in which he is apprehended or is in custody; or
(b)in such sheriff court district as the Lord Advocate may determine,
as if the offence had been committed in that district, and the offence shall, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment thereof, be deemed to have been committed in that district.
(4)Any person who—
(a)has in his possession in Scotland property which he has stolen in any other part of the United Kingdom; or
(b)in Scotland receives property stolen in any other part of the United Kingdom,
may be dealt with, indicted, tried and punished in Scotland in like manner as if he had stolen it in Scotland.
[F1(5)Where a person in any part of the United Kingdom outside Scotland—
(a)steals or attempts to steal any mail-bag or postal packet in the course of its transmission by post, or any of the contents of such a mail-bag or postal packet; or
(b)in stealing or with intent to steal any such mail-bag or postal packet or any of its contents commits any robbery, attempted robbery or assault with intent to rob,
he is guilty of the offence mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) as if he had committed it in Scotland and shall be liable to be prosecuted, tried and punished there without proof that the offence was committed there.
(6)Any expression used in subsection (5) and in the Postal Services Act 2000 has the same meaning in that subsection as it has in that Act.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 11(5)(6) inserted (26.3.2001) by 2000 c. 26, s. 127(4), Sch. 8 para. 24; S.I. 2001/1148, art. 2, Sch. (subject to arts. 3-42)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 11(3) applied (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. {69(2)(c)}, 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.
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