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Code Of Criminal Procedure Act (No. 15 of 1979) - Sect 128

Ordinary place of Inquiry and trial. Any Magistrate's Court to have jurisdiction over offences committed on territorial waters

128.
(1) Every offence shall ordinarily be inquired into and tried by a court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction it was committed.
(2) Any Magistrate's Court within the local limits of the jurisdiction of which an accused may be of be found shall have jurisdiction respectively in all cases of offences otherwise within their respective jurisdictions which have been committed on the territorial waters of Sri Lanka.
(3) An offence committed on the territorial waters of Sri Lanka to which subsection (2) is not applicable or an offence committed on the high seas, or on board any ship or upon, any aircraft may be tried or inquired into by the Magistrate's Court of Colombo if it otherwise has jurisdiction or on indictment by the High Court.

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