Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 8 - OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND RELATED OFFENCES  

Division 268 - Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court  

Subdivision E - Other serious war crimes that are committed in the course of an international armed conflict  

SECTION 268.52  

268.52   War crime - depriving nationals of the adverse power of rights or actions  
A person (the perpetrator ) commits an offence if:


(a) the perpetrator effects the abolition, suspension or termination of admissibility in a court of law of certain rights or actions; and


(b) the abolition, suspension or termination is directed at the nationals of an adverse party; and


(c) the perpetrator ' s conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.




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