Section 177

Where any person is charged with having committed any offence on board any Brunei Darussalam ship on the high seas or elsewhere outside Brunei 479

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Darussalam or on board any foreign ship to which he does not belong and that person is found within the jurisdiction of any court in Brunei Darussalam which would have had cognisance of the offence if it had been committed on board a

Brunei Darussalam ship within the limits of its ordinary jurisdiction, that court shall have jurisdiction to try the offence as if it had been so committed.

Presumption of jurisdiction.