Section 45: Place Where Offence May be Tried.

Subject to the power of transfer contained in this Act, the place for the trial of offence shall be as follows-(a) an offence shall be tried by a court exercising jurisdiction in the area or place where the offence was committed;
(b) when a person is a accused of the commission of any offence by reason of anything which has been omitted to be done, and of any consequence which has ensued, such offence may be tried by a court exercising jurisdiction in the area or place in which any such things has been done or omitted to be done, or any such consequence has ensued;
(c) when an act is an offence by reason of its relation to any other act which is also an offence, a charge of the first mentioned offence may be tried by a court exercising jurisdiction in the area or place either in which it happened, or in which the offence with which it was so connected, happened;
(d) when-
(i) it is uncertain in which of several areas or places an offence was committed; or
(ii) an offence is committed partly in one area or places and partly in another; or
(iii) an offence is a continuing one and continues to be committed in more areas or places than one; or
(iv) an offence consists of several acts committed in different areas or places, such offence may be tried by a court exercising jurisdiction in any of such areas or places;
(e) an offence committed while the offender is in the course of performing a journey or voyage, may be tried by a court in or into the area or place of whose jurisdiction the offender or person against whom or the thing in respect of which the offence was committed reside, is or passed in the course of that journey or voyage.