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Venue.
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72.—(1) An offence against this Act may be tried either in the county or place in which it was actually committed, or in any county or place in which the alleged offender is apprehended or is in custody, or (where the offence is in respect of a mail, mail bag, postal packet, or money order, or any chattel, money, or valuable security sent by post) in any county or place through which or any part thereof the mail, mail bag, postal packet, money order, chattel, money, or security passed in due course of conveyance by post, and an offence, if committed in Scotland, may also be tried at any sitting of the High Court of Justiciary.
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(2) Where the offence is committed on any highway, harbour, canal, river, arm of the sea, or other water, constituting the boundary of two or more counties or places, it may be tried in any of the said counties or places.
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