PART 5 U.K. Protection of children and others

[F1 Strangulation or suffocation E+W

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 75A, 75B and cross-heading inserted (E.W.) (7.6.2022) by Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (c. 17), ss. 70(1), 90(6); S.I. 2022/553, regs. 1(2), 3(a)

75B Offences under section 75A committed outside the United Kingdom E+W

(1) If—

(a) a person does an act in a country outside the United Kingdom,

(b) the act, if done in England and Wales, would constitute an offence under section 75A, and

(c) the person is a United Kingdom national or is habitually resident in England and Wales,

the person is guilty in England and Wales of that offence.

(2) In this section—

• “country” includes territory;

• “United Kingdom national” means an individual who is—

  (a)

  a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen,

  (b)

  a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981 is a British subject, or

  (c)

  a British protected person within the meaning of that Act.]