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EXTRAORDINARY
REPUBLIC OF FIJI ISLANDS GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE FIJI GOVERNMENT
Vol. 10
THURSDAY, 5th NOVEMBER 2009
[1165]
CRIMES DECREE 2009
(Decree No. 44 of 2009)
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
CHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS
PART 1 — PRELIMINARY
1.
2.
3.
Short title and commencement
Common law offences cease to apply
Savings of certain laws
PART 2 — INTERPRETATION OF CRIMINAL LAWS
4.
Interpretation
5. Other rules of construction
PART 3 — TERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF THE CRIMINAL LAWS
6.
7.
8.
9.
Extent of jurisdiction of Fiji’s courts
Standard geographical jurisdiction
Extended geographical jurisdiction
Conduct taken to occur partly in Fiji
CHAPTER II — GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
PART 4 — PURPOSE AND APPLICATION
10.
11.
12.
Purpose
Application
Application of provisions relating to intoxication
PART 5 — GENERAL ELEMENTS OF AN OFFENCE
Division 1—General
13.
14.
Elements
Establishing guilt in respect of offences
Division 2— Physical Elements of an Offence
15.
Physical elements
16.
Voluntariness
17. Omissions
Division 3 — Fault Elements of an Offence
18. Fault elements
19.
Intention
20.
Knowledge
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