Part 6: Offences involving violent or abusive behaviour Section 72: Offences against the person committed outside the UK: England and Wales
This section extends the circumstances in which certain sexual and violent offences committed abroad may be prosecuted in England and Wales, where the offence is committed by a UK national or a person habitually resident in England and Wales.
	Subsection (1) makes it an offence in England and Wales for a person who is a UK national (as defined in subsection (8)), or is habitually resident in England and Wales, to commit certain acts in a country outside the UK. The act done must amount to an offence listed in subsection (2) and must also amount to an offence in the country where it was committed.
	Subsection (3) excludes murder and manslaughter from the ambit of subsection (1) where a person would otherwise be guilty of those offences under other laws, such as sections 9 and 10 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 or section 4 of the Suppression of Terrorism Act 1978.
	Subsection (4) provides that the precise description of the offence does not need to be the same in both countries. For example, the provisions could apply to someone who committed grievous bodily harm in another country although that offence was described differently under the law in that country.
	Subsections (5) to (7) provide a procedure under which the defendant can challenge the prosecution to prove that the act in question constitutes an offence under the law of the country where it took place.