Article 738 — Application as to Place.

(1) Petty offences shall be deemed to have been committed at the place where the offender acted or had the legal obligation to act (Art. 25). They shall be governed as a rule by the principle of territoriality (Art. 11). (2) Petty offences committed in Ethiopia shall always be tried in accordance with Ethiopian law when the petty offender is in Ethiopia. They shall give rise neither to delegation (Art. 12) nor to extradition (Art. 21). (3) Petty offences committed in a foreign country by an Ethiopian or against an Ethiopian subject (Art. 18) shall not be punished in Ethiopia: Petty offences committed in a foreign country by an Ethiopian enjoying immunity (Art. 14) shall not be punished in Ethiopia. (4) Petty offences of a purely military character provided by Ethiopian military law (Art. 792) shall always be tried by the military authority and punished according to Ethiopian law whether they were committed in Ethiopia or in a foreign country. If, however, the doer was already tried for the same act by a foreign Court a fresh penalty may be dispensed with.