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 J - Crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court  

SECTION 268.111   Reprisals against officials of the International Criminal Court  

(1)    
A person commits an offence if the person causes or threatens to cause any detriment to another person who is an official of the International Criminal Court:


(a) because of anything done by the other person; and


(b) in the belief that the other person was an official of that Court who had done that thing for the purposes of a proceeding before that Court.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.


(2)    
A person commits an offence if the person causes or threatens to cause any detriment to another person who is an official of the International Criminal Court:


(a) because of anything done by a third person who is an official of that Court; and


(b) in the belief that the third person was an official of that Court who had done that thing for the purposes of a proceeding before that Court.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.





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