Section 12: A. Offences against laws of a State

(1) Where by the provisions of any law of a State the doing of any act or the making of
any omission is constituted an offence, those provisions shall apply to every person
who is in the State at the time of his doing the act or making the omission.
(2) With regard to any such offence which is of such a nature that it comprises several
elements, if any acts or omissions or events actually occur, which, if they all occurred
in the State, would constitute an offence, and any of such acts or omissions or events
occur in the State, although all or some of the other acts or omissions or events which,
if they occurred in the State, would be elements of the offence, occur elsewhere than
in the State, then‐
(a) if the act or omission, which in the case of an offence committed wholly in the State
would be the initial element of the offence, occurs in the State, the person who does
that act or makes that omission is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to
the same punishment as if all the subsequent elements of the offence had occurred in
the State; and
(b) if that act or omission occurs elsewhere than in the State, and the person who does
that act or makes that omission afterwards comes into the State, he is by such coming
into the State guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same
punishment, as if that act or omission had occurred in the State and he had been in
the State when it occurred.
But in any such case, it is a defence to the charge to prove that the accused person
did not intend that the act or omission should have effect in the State. This subsection
does not extend to a case in which the only material event that occurs in the State is
the death in the State of a person whose death is caused by an act, done or omitted to
be done, at a place not in the State and at a time when he was not in the State.