International Humanitarian Law - National Implementation

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Afghanistan

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Agreement on provisional arrangements in Afghanistan pending the re-establishment of permanent government institutions (2001 Bonn Agreement)

[Attachment]

Constitution 2004 (unofficial translation)

Attachment

Rules of procedure of the Wolesi Jirga, 2006

[Attachment]

Juvenile Code, 2005 (Unofficial translation)

Penal Code, 1976

[Attachment]

Criminal Procedure Code for Courts, 2004

[Attachment]

Law of Prison and Detention Centers, 2005 (Unofficial translation)

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Military Criminal Procedure Code, 2005 (Unofficial translation)

Attachment

Law implementing article 27 of the Constitution, 2005

Attachment

Albania

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Constitution of the Republic of Albania, 1998

[Link]

Law No. 7624, of 14.10.1992 "on Accession to the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949"

[Attachment]

Decree No. 333, of 28.10.1992 on the proclamation of Law No. 7624 of 14.10.1992 "on Accession to the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949"

[Attachment]

Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania, LIGJ Nr. 7895, dated 27.01.1995

[Attachment]

Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania, LIGJ No.7895, amended by Law No. 8733 January 2001.

Attachment

Military Criminal Code, 1955 (as amended 2002) (Extracts)

[Weblink]

Law No. 7865 of 29.09.1994 on the protection of the emblem and the name of the red cross

Albanian original text and French translation [Attachment]

Law Nr. 9048, Date 07.04.2003, "For the Cultural Heritage"

[Attachment in Albanian / English translation]

Decision No. 269, date 25.05.2000 on Prohibition of the use, storage, production and transfer of antipersonnel mines and their destruction

Albanian original text and English translation in Attachment

Law No.8290 of 24.02.1998 on the use of firearms

[Attachment]

Law No. 7864 of 29.09.1994 on the Albanian Red Cross

[Attachment]

Law No. 9092 on the Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction

[Attachment]

Algeria

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Constitution, as amended on 28.11.1996

Extracts (in English and Arabic)

Penal Code, 1966

Art. 76 [Mercenaires]

Art. 89 [Pillage]

Art. 86 [Envahissement - pillage]

Art. 85 [Complot]

Art. 87 bis [Terrorisme, atteinte à l'environnement]

Art. 84 [Massacre ou dévastation]

[Link]

Code of Penal Procedure, 1966

[Link]

Art. 582 [Juridiction: personnalité active]

Art. 585 [Juridiction: territorialité]

Livre VII - rapports avec les autorités judiciaires étrangères

Ordinance No 71-28 of 22 April 1971, Code of Military Justice (full version)

[Attachment]

Code de Justice Militaire 1971

Art. 299

Art. 28

Art. 8

Law No 09-03 promulgated on 19 Jumada I 1424 AH corresponding to 19 July 2003 AD on the Repression of Crimes against Provisions of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction

Law n°98-04 on protection of cultural heritage, 1998

Attachment

Décret présidentiel No. 08-163 du 29 Joumada El Oula 1429 correspondant au 4 juin 2008 portant création de la commission nationale du droit international humanitaire

Attachment

Presidential Decree creating the National Advisory Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

See attachment

Family Code, 1984

[Link]

Attachment

Chapitre VII, Livre deuxième de la représentation légale

Ordonnance n° 97-06 du 12 Ramadhan 1417 correspondant au 21 janvier 1997 relative aux matériels de guerre, armes et munitions.

Attachment

Décret exécutif n° 98-96 du 19 Dhou El Kaada 1418 correspondant au 18 mars 1998 fixant les modalités d'application de l'ordonnance n° 97-06 du 12 Ramadhan 1417 correspondant au 21 janvier 1997 relative aux matériels de guerre, armes et munitions.

Attachment

Andorra

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by Laws 9 and 10, 21 February 2005.

Attachment

Proposta d’aprovació de l’adhesió al Conveni sobre la prohibició del desenvolupament, la producció, l’emmagatzematge i la utilització d’armes químiques i sobre la seva destrucció, 1997

Angola

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Decree No 1/01 of 5 January 2001 on displaced population

[Attachment]

Law No 7/00 on Amnesty

[Attachment]

Law on preventive detention, 1992 (extracts)

Attachment

Code Pénal (Extraits)

Attachment

Constitution (extracts)

Attachment

Code de Procédure Pénale (Extraits)

Attachment

Ley No 17/91 sobre Estado de Sitio y Estado de Emergencia

[Attachment]

Antigua and Barbuda

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Antigua and Barbuda Red Cross Society Act, 1983

[Text]

Argentina

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Constitution, 1994 (extracts)

Art. 6 [Power of federal Government to intervene in the provinces]

Art. 18 [Judicial guarantees]

Art. 21 [Military service]

Art. 23 [State of siege]

Art. 31 [Supreme law of the Nation]

Art. 36 [Nullity of acts against constitutional order and democratic system]

Art. 43 [Amparo, habeas data, habeas corpus]

Art. 75 [Powers of Congress]

Art. 99 [Powers of the President]

Art. 116 [Powers of the Supreme Court]

Art. 117 [Special jurisdiction of the Supreme Court]

Art. 118 [Place of trial in criminal cases]

Law No. 2976 on the use of the emblem, name and insignia of the Argentine Red Cross

[Text]

Law No. 13.582 - Organization and operation of the Argentine Red Cross Society, 1949

[Repealed text]

Law No. 26.200 on the Implementation of the ICC Statute.

Attachment

Penal Code, 1984 (extracts)

Art. 1 [Application]

Art. 4 [Application of special laws]

Art. 34 [Excuses and justifications]

Art. 35 [Excuses and justifications]

Art. 40 [Mitigating and agravating circumstances]

Art. 41 [Mitigating and agravating circumstances]

Art. 41bis [Excuses and justifications]

Art. 59 [Amnesty, statutory limitations, etc.]

Art. 61 [Amnesty]

Art. 62 [Statutory limitations]

Art. 65 [Statutory limitations]

Art. 68 [Pardon]

Art. 70 [Compensation]

Art. 214 [Surrender]

Art. 215 [Surrender]

Art. 216 [Treason]

Art. 218 [When committed by foreign residents]

Art. 219 [Non-authorized hostile acts]

Art. 220 [Violations of treaties, truces, armistices, etc.]

Art. 221 [Violation of a immunity]

Law No. 24.767 - International cooperation in criminal matters, 1997 (extracts)

Art.9

Art.15

Art.37

Extradition decrees

Decree No. 583/98 (PEN) granting a request for extradition and authorizing immediate transfer to the Republic of Croatia of a naturalized Argentine citizen

Decree No. 619/98 (PEN) denying the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's request for the extradition of a naturalized Argentine citizen

Decree No. 980/98 (PEN) issued following a petition for extradition of a Croatian citizen presented by the Republic of Croatia

Resolution ROD-71-01 on the organization and funcioning of the military staff headquarters of the Republic of Argentina

[Attachment]

Code of Military Justice, 1951 (extracts)

Art. 96 [Right to the assistance of counsel]

Art. 108 [Offences subject to military jurisdiction]

Art. 109 [Persons subject to military jurisdiction]

Art. 110 [Military jurisdiction in time of war]

Art. 111 [Military jurisdiction in occupied territories]

Art. 112 [Application of international treaties]

Art. 137 [Use of weapons to repress pillage, arson, etc., in gang]

Art. 252 [Choice of counsel]

Art. 344 [Counsel assigned by the court]

Art. 347 [Lack of jurisdiction, time-barring, amnesty, etc.]

Art. 514 [Command responsibility]

Art. 515 [Mitigating circumstances]

Art. 519 [Aggravating circumstances]

Art. 593 [Death, amnesty, time-barring, etc.]

Art. 600 [Statutory limitations]

Art. 601 [Statutory limitations]

Art. 605 [Ne bis in idem]

Art. 634 [Disclosure of military information]

Art. 635 [Disclosure of military information]

Art. 636 [Disclosure of information relative to national defence]

Art. 637 [Unlawful entry]

Art. 638 [Hostile acts leading to a declaration of war]

Art. 639 [Acts leading to reprisals]

Art. 640 [Acts leading to reprisals]

Art. 641 [Piracy]

Art. 741 [Hostile acts committed after notice of peace or truce]

Art. 746 [Offences against prisoners of war, parlementaires, medical and cultural objects, etc ...]

Art. 798 [Non-assistance to ship in distress]

Art. 864 [Escape of prisoners of war]

Art. 866 [Escape of prisoners of war]

Art. 867 [Offences committed by prisoners of war]

Art. 868 [Prisoners of war freed on parole]

Art. 869 [Mutiny of prisoners of war]

Art. 871 [Aggravating circumstances]

Art. 873 [Prisoners of war and certain civilians to be considered as military personnel]

Art. 882 [Definition of "in time of war"]

Art. 883 [Definition of "in front of the enemy"]

Art. 884 [Definition of "in the field"]

Law No. 24.517 - Creation of a national committee within the Ministry of Defence to investigate alleged war crimes in connection with hostilities in the South Atlantic

[Text]

Decree No. 920/97 (PEN) establishing the Interministerial Committee for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

[Text]

Decree No. 435/95 on approval of resolution No. 48/75 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations, exhorting States to agree to declare a suspension in the exportation of anti-personnel mines

[Text]

United Resolution 125/98, 2097/09 and 41/98 - MP, MRECIYC and MEYOSP: Nuclear exportations

[Attachment]

Law No 14394 relating to minors and families

[Attachment]

Law 25197 on the Regime of the Registry of Cultural Patrimony

[Attachment]

Law No. 22.418 - Civil defence for the city of Buenos Aires

[Text]

Committee for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Decree No. 933/94 (PEN) setting up the Committee for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Internal rules of the Committee for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Constitution of the city of Buenos Aires, 1996 (extracts)

Art. 104

Law 23511 (1986) on the National bank of genetic data

[Attachment ]

Law on the protection of personal data

[Text]

Law on the National Genetic Data Bank

[Text]

Decree 187/83 on the National Commission on the Disappeared

[Attachment]

Civil Code (extracts)

[Text]

Law No. 24.321 on enforced disappearance

[Text]

Law No. 24.411 regarding compensation in the event of enforced disappearance and death as a result of an action by the armed forces

[Text]

Law supplementary to the Law No. 24.411

[Text]

Decree No. 403/95 on the regulations for the implementation of Law No. 24.411

[Text]

Law 26.247. Chemical Weapons. Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition, Developpement, Production, Stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and on their destruction. Ley 26.247. Armas químicas. Implementación de la Convención sobre la prohibición del desarrollo, de la producción, el almacenamiento y el empleo de armas químicas y sobre su destrucción.

[Text]

Decree Nr 1430/2004 creating the National Information Bureau

[Attachment]

Decree 603/1992 on Exports of Sensitive and War Material (Exportaciones Sensitivas y de Material Bélico)

Attachment

National Case Law

Priebke s/pedido de extradición, Corte Suprema, 2 de noviembre de 1995

Simon, Julio, Del Cerro, Juan Antonio s/sustracción de menores de 10 años, Juzgado Nacional en lo Criminal y Correccional Federal Nro. 4, 6 de marzo de 2001

Fibraca Constructora S.C.A. c/ Comisión Técnica Mixta de Salto Grande, Corte Suprema, 7 de febrero de 1993

Atentato c/ la Embajada de Israel s/ excusación, Procurador General de la Nación (Corte Suprema), Sumario, 1992

Ekmekdjian Miguel Angel c/Sofovich, Gerardo y otros, Corte Suprema, 7 de julio de 1992

Liendo Arriaga, Edgardo s/ extradición, Corte Suprema, 30 de abril de 1996

Urteaga, Facundo Raúl c/ Estado Nacional -Estado Mayor Conjunto de las FF.AA.- s/ amparo ley 16.986, Supreme Court, 15 October 1998

Coronel y otros c/Estado Nacional, Corte Suprema, 9 de noviembre de 2000

Schwammberger, Josef Franz s/ extradición, Corte Suprema, 20 de marzo de 1990

Suarez Mason, Carlos Guillermo, 13 de agosto de 1998

Garcia Guzman, Juan Carlos s/ extradición, 5 de noviembre de 1996

Cauchi, Augosto s/extradición, Corte Suprema, 13 de agosto de 1998

Peyrú s/pedido de extradición, Corte Suprema, 23 de febrero de 1995

Bohne, Gerhard Johannes s/extradición, Corte Suprema, 4 de agosto de 1966

Armenia

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Law of the Republic of Armenia on the use and protection of the emblems of the red cross and red crescent

[Text]

Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia

Art. 1 Criminal legislation of the Republic of Armenia

Art. 5 Principle of legitimacy

Art. 12 Operation of the criminal law in time

Art. 13 Retroactive effect of criminal law

Art. 14 The effect of the criminal law with regard to persons who committed crime in the territory o fthe Republic of Armenia

Art. 15 Effect of criminal law with regard to persons who committed crimes outside the territory of the Republic of Armenia

Art. 16 Extradition of persons who committed a crime

Art. 17 Legal significance of a person's conviction outside the RA

Art. 384 Aggressive war

Art. 385 Public calls for aggressive war

Art. 386 Manufacture or proliferation of mass destruction weapons

Art. 387 Application of prohibited methods of war

Art. 388 Terrorism against the representative of a foreign country or international organisation

Art. 389 International terrorism

Art. 390 Serious breach of International Humanitarian Law during armed conflict

Art. 391 Inaction or making an illegal command duiring armed conflict

Art. 392 Crimes against human security

Art. 393 Genocide

Art. 394 Ecocide

Art. 395 Mercenaries

Art. 396 Assault on persons or organizations under international protection

Art. 397 Illegal use of identification signs protected by international treaties

Civil Code (extracts)

[Text]

Attachment

Constitution (1995)

Attachment

Law on Social Security for Servicemen and their family members

Attachment

Décret du Président de la République d'Armenie sur la création de la Commission qui s'occupe des questions des personnes disprues, des otages et des détenus

Attachment

Australia

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Geneva Conventions Act 1957

Part I—Preliminary

Part II—Punishment of offenders against the Conventions and Protocol I [Repealed]

Part III—Legal proceedings in respect of protected persons

Part IV—Abuse of the Red Cross and other emblems, signs, signals, identity cards, insignia and uniforms

International Criminal Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002

[Text]

War Crimes Act 1945

Preamble

Part 1 Preliminary

Part 2 Interpretation

Part 3 War Crimes

Notes

Genocide Convention Act 1949

Sect. 1 Short title

Sect. 2 Commencement

Sect. 3 Interpretation

Sect. 4 Approval of ratification

Sect. 5 Approval of extension to Territories

Schedule Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

International Criminal Court Act 2002

Part 1 - Preliminary

Part 2 - General provisions relating to requests by the ICC for cooperation

Part 3 - Requests by the ICC for arrest and surrender of persons

Part 4 - Other requests by ICC

Part 5 - Investigations or sittings of the ICC in Australia

Part 6 - Search, seizure and powers of arrest

Part 7 - Information provided in confidence by third party

Part 8 - Protection of Australia's national security interests

Part 9 - Transportation of persons in custody through Australia

Part 10 - Enforcement in Australia of reparation orders made and fines imposed by ICC

Part 11 - Forfeiture of proceeds of international crimes

Part 12 - Enforcement in Australia of sentences imposed by ICC

Part 13 - Requests by Australia to ICC

Part 14 - Miscellaneous

Schedule 1

Defence Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2009 (No. 18, 2009)

Attachment

International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995

Part 1 Preliminary

Part 2 Requests by a Tribunal for assistance

Part 3 Surrender of persons to a Tribunal

Part 4 Other forms of assistance to a Tribunal

Part 5 Sittings of a Tribunal in Australia

Part 6 Forfeiture of proceeds of Tribunal offences

Part 8 Miscellaneous

Schedules

Crimes (Biological Weapons) Act 1976

Sect. 1 Short title

Sect. 2 Commencement

Sect. 3 Interpretation

Sect. 4 Extension to external Territories

Sect. 5 Extra-territorial operation of Act

Sect. 6 Act binds the Crown

Sect. 6A Application of the Criminal Code

Sect. 7 Ratification of Convention

Sect. 8 Restriction on development etc. of certain biological agents and toxins and biological weapons

Sect. 9 Forfeiture and seizure

Sect. 10 Prosecutions

Sect. 11 Jurisdiction of courts

Sect. 12 Evidence of analyst

Sect. 13 Regulations

Schedule Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction

Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act 1994

Sect. 1 Short title

Sect. 2 Commencement

Sect. 3 Object of Act

Sect. 4 Extension to external Territories

Sect. 5 Extra-territorial operation of Act

Sect. 6 Act binds the Crown

Sect. 7 Definitions

Sect. 8 Approved forms and approved procedures

Sect. 8A Electronic lodgment

Sect. 8B Regulations may define consumption, processing and production of chemicals

Sect. 9 Conduct by directors, servants and agents

Sect. 10 Determining aggregate amounts of chemicals

Sect. 11 Application of Act

Sect. 12 Offences relating to chemical weapons

Sect. 13 Notification of finding of substances or articles believed to be chemical weapons

Sect. 14 Forfeiture and seizure of chemical weapons

Sect. 15 Outline of this Part

Sect. 16 When is a permit required?

Sect. 17 Applications for permits

Sect. 18 Grant of permits

Sect. 19 Special considerations relating to permits for the operation of facilities in respect of Schedule 1 chemicals

Sect. 19A Automatic renewal of permits

Sect. 20 Non-automatic renewal of permits

Sect. 21 Renewals not able to be dealt with within time

Sect. 22 Conditions relating to a permit facility

Sect. 23 Variation of permits

Sect. 24 Transfer of permits

Sect. 25 Revocation of permits

Sect. 26 Notice of certain decisions

Sect. 27 Review of decisions

Sect. 28 When is a notification required?

Sect. 29 Making notifications required under section 28

Sect. 30 Record keeping obligations in relation to certain facilities

Sect. 31 Director may seek information for declarations and consultation purposes

Sect. 32 Outline of this Part

Sect. 33 Compliance purpose

Sect. 34 Inspection powers

Sect. 35 Compliance inspections by national inspectors

Sect. 36 Period within which compliance inspection may be carried out

Sect. 37 International compliance purposes

Sect. 38 International inspection powers

Sect. 39 Routine international compliance inspections of Schedule 1 facilities

Sect. 40 Routine international compliance inspections of facilities dealing with Schedule 2 chemicals

Sect. 41 Routine international compliance inspections of facilities dealing with Schedule 3 chemicals

Sect. 42 Routine international compliance inspections of OCP facilities

Sect. 43 Inspectors not entitled to exercise powers under this Division in certain circumstances

Sect. 44 Incidence of routine international compliance inspections

Sect. 45 Challenge inspection purposes

Sect. 46 Challenge inspection powers

Sect. 47 Challenge inspections

Sect. 48 Observers

Sect. 49 Clarification procedures

Sect. 50 Compliance inspection warrants

Sect. 51 International compliance inspection warrants

Sect. 52 Challenge inspection warrants

Sect. 53 Duration of inspection period

Sect. 54 Ministerial extension of inspection periods

Sect. 55 Challenge inspection warrant to authorise presence of an observer

Sect. 56 Definition

Sect. 57 Offence-related searches and seizures

Sect. 58 Offence-related warrants

Sect. 59 The things that are authorised by search warrants

Sect. 60 Specific powers available to national inspectors executing warrants

Sect. 61 Use of equipment to examine or process things

Sect. 62 Use of electronic equipment at premises

Sect. 63 Warrants by telephone or other electronic means

Sect. 64 Retention of things which are seized

Sect. 65 Court of summary jurisdiction may permit a thing to be retained

Sect. 66 Announcement before entry

Sect. 67 Availability of assistance and use of force in executing warrant

Sect. 68 Details of warrant to be given to occupier etc.

Sect. 69 Copies of seized things to be provided

Sect. 70 Compensation for damage to electronic equipment

Sect. 71 Offence of making false statements in applications for warrants

Sect. 72 Offences relating to telephone warrants

Sect. 73 Initial inspection plan

Sect. 74 Initial inspection plan and conduct of inspection to be consistent with facility agreement

Sect. 75 Managed access

Sect. 76 Facility agreements

Sect. 77 Production etc. of Scheduled chemicals otherwise than in accordance with permit

Sect. 78 Breach of condition of permit

Sect. 79 Interference with monitoring equipment

Sect. 80 False or misleading statements and documents

Sect. 81 Forfeiture

Sect. 82 Hearing to be in private in certain circumstances

Sect. 83 Register of Permits and Notifications

Sect. 84 Evidence of analyst

Sect. 85 Equipment or material approved by Organization

Sect. 86 Director of the Chemical Weapons Convention Office

Sect. 87 Functions of Director

Sect. 88 The Chemical Weapons Convention Office

Sect. 89 Delegation by Director

Sect. 90 Controller of Permits and Notifications

Sect. 91 Function of the Controller

Sect. 92 National inspectors

Sect. 93 Identity cards

Sect. 94 Engagement of consultants etc.

Sect. 95 Powers to be exercised in accordance with Convention

Sect. 96 Annual report by Director

Sect. 97 Additional reports

Sect. 98 Register of Permits and Notifications

Sect. 99 Delegation by Minister

Sect. 100 Organization inspectors

Sect. 101 Privileges and immunities of Organization inspectors and foreign country inspectors

Sect. 101A Privileges and immunities of observers

Sect. 101B Privileges and immunities of other persons

Sect. 102 Secrecy

Sect. 103 Australia not liable for acts or omissions of Organization etc.

Sect. 104 Regulations

Schedule The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction

Anti-personnel Mines Convention Act 1998

Part 2 Offences relating to anti-personnel mines

Part 3 Powers of fact-finding missions

Part 1 Introduction

Part 4 Information-gathering powers

Part 5 Miscellaneous

Schedule 1 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction (Prevention of Proliferation) Act 1995

Sect. 1 Short title

Sect. 2 Commencement

Sect. 3 Interpretation

Sect. 4 Provision of services

Sect. 5 Extension to external Territories

Sect. 6 Object and operation of the Act

Sect. 7 Additional operation of the Act

Sect. 8 Act to bind the Crown

Sect. 9 Prohibition on supplying goods for WMD program

Sect. 10 Prohibition on exporting goods for WMD program

Sect. 11 Prohibition on providing services for WMD program

Sect. 12 Request to the Minister for information

Sect. 13 Permits

Sect. 14 Notice prohibiting supply or export of goods or provision of services

Sect. 15 Conduct by directors, servants and agents

Sect. 16 Injunctions

Sect. 17 Forfeiture of goods

Sect. 18 Evidential certificates by Minister

Sect. 19 Delegation by Minister

Sect. 20 Attorney-General's consent required for prosecutions

Sect. 21 Regulations

Criminal Code Amendment (Application) Act 2000

Attachment

International War Crimes Tribunals (Consequential Amendments) Act 1995

Attachment

Regulations - Attachment

Criminal Code Act 1995

Attachment

Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986

Attachment

Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (the Constitution), with amendments up to Act No. 84 1977

Attachment

Criminal Code Amendment (United Nations and Associated Personnel) Act 2000

Attachment

Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976

Attachment

Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001

Attachment

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Attachment

Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

Attachment

Crimes Act 1914

National Case Law

Polyukhovich v. Commonwealth, High Court of Australia, 14 August 1991

Austria

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Constitution (extracts)

Art. 9 [International Law, Transfer of Specific Sovereign Rights]

Art. 10 [Federal Legislation and Execution]

Art. 49 [Promulgation]

Art. 50 [Treaties]

Art. 65 [Functions]

Art. 84 [Military Tribunals]

Art. 140a [Constitutionality of Treaties]

Penal Code

Art. 63 Acts committed aboard an Austrian vessel or aircraft

Art. 64 Acts committed abroad punishable irrespective of the law of the place where they are committed

Art. 65 Acts committed abroad punishable only if they are subject to punishment under the law of the place where they are committed

Art. 177a Manufacture and Spreading of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Art. 321 Genocide

Federal Law on Cooperation with the International Tribunals

Part I: General Provisions

Part II: Special Provisions

Federal Law on cooperation with the ICC, 2002 (in German)

[Attachment]

Federal Law on the Recognition of the Austrian Red Cross and the Protection of the Red Cross Emblem (Red Cross Law - RKG)

(Attachment)

Military Penal Code

Art. 3 Obeying orders contrary to criminal law

Art. 17 Lawfulness of not following orders

Defence Act

Art. 48 Training

Defence Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2009 (No. 18, 2009)

Attachment

Federal Law on the Prohibition of Anti-personnel Mines

[Text]

Federal law on prohibition of blinding laser weapons

[Text]

Law on ammunition warehouses

Art. 5 Conditions for the construction

Federal Law on the Prohibition of Cluster Munitions 2009 (Gesamte Rechtsvorschrift für Verbot von Streumunition)

Attachment (2009 Amendment)

Attachment (German)

Attachment (English)

Loi de modification du droit de la défense

Loi sur la discipline dans l'armée, loi d'adaptation du droit relatif à la discipline dans l'armée

Attachment

Loi sur la protection de biens culturels

Attachment

National Case Law

Supreme Court, 13 July 1994

Azerbaijan

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan governing the use and protection of the red cross and red crescent emblems

[Text]

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "on the changes and additions to the criminal code of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the code of administrative offences of the Republic of Azerbaijan" in keeping with the law "on the use and protection of the red cross and red crescent emblems"

[Text]

Criminal Code (extracts)

Art. 5 Principle of legality

Art. 10 Action of criminal law in time

Art. 11 Action of criminal law with respect to crimes committed on the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic

Art. 12 Action of criminal law with respect to crimes committed outside the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic

Art. 13 Extradition of persons who committed a crime

Art. 40 Execution of order or instruction

Art. 57 Life deprivation of liberty

Art. 75 Discharge from criminal responsibility in connection with the expiration of statutory limitations

Art. 80 Discharge from bearing punishment in connection with term of execution of accusation sentence

Art. 100 Planning, preparation, beginning or conduct of an aggressive war

Art. 101 Public appeals to begin an aggressive war

Art. 102 Directing of attacks against persons or institutions who enjoy international protection

Art. 103 Genocide

Art. 104 Instigation for the commitment of genocide

Art. 105 Extermination

Art. 107 Deportation or forcible transfer of population

Art. 108 Gender violation

Art. 109 Persecution

Art. 110 Enforced disappearance of persons

Art. 111 Racial discrimination (apartheid)

Art. 112 Deprivation of liberty contrary to the norms of international law

Art. 113 Torture

Art. 114 Mercenaries

Art. 115 Violations of laws and customs of war

Art. 116 Violations of the norms of international humanitarian law in time of an armed conflict

Art. 117 Negligence or giving criminal order in time of armed conflict

Art. 118 Pillage

Art. 119 Abuse of protected signs

Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on introduction of changes to certain decrees and orders of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Attachment

Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan establishing a Commission for implementation of the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

[Text]

Order No 637 of the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Azerbaidjan on the application of IHL norms in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan

[Attachment]

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society

Attachment

Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on implementation of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "on Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society"

Attachment

Bahamas (the)

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

The Bahamas Red Cross Society Act, 1975

[Text]

[Official Gazette pdf]

The Bahamas Independence Order (Constitution) 1973

Attachment

Bahrain

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Code of Criminal Procedure issued by Legislative Decree No.46 of 2002

(Extracts in English and Arabic)

Penal Code (Decree Law No 15 of 1976, as amended by Law for the year 2005 promulgating the Penal Code)

(Extracts in English and Arabic)

Constitution (extracts)

(Extracts in English and Arabic)

Military Penal Code (Decree Law No 34 of 2002)

(Extracts in English and Arabic)

Bangladesh

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

1973 International Crimes Act

Attachment

Act No. XIX of 1973, An Act to provide for the detention, prosecution and punishment of persons for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under international law.

attachment

International Crimes (Tribunals) (Amendment) Act 2009

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The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Order, 1973

attachment

Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act 2006

Attachment

Barbados

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Geneva Conventions Act, 1980

[Text]

Barbados Red Cross Society Act, 1969

[Attachment]

Belarus

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Law of the Republic of Belarus on the withdrawal of the reservations made by the Republic of Belarus on signing the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 on the protection of war victims

[Text]

Law governing the use and protection of the red cross and red crescent emblems

[Text]

Law of the Republic of Belarus no. 282-W of July 3, 2011 (Russian) : on amendments into some laws of the Republic of Belarus on the issues pertaining to fulfilment by the Republic of Belarus of its international obligations in the field of international humanitarian law

Criminal Code (extracts)

Art. 6 L'application du présent Code aux personnes ayant commis des infractions en dehors du territoire de la République de Bélarus

Art. 7 L'extradition des personnes ayant commis des infractions

Art. 8 La portée préjudicielle de la commission d'une infraction sur le territoire d'un Etat étranger

Art. 40 Exécution d’un ordre ou d’une instruction

Art. 85 L'imprescriptibilité

Art. 122 La préparation ou la conduite d'une guerre d'agression

Art. 123 La propagande en faveur de la guerre

Art. 124 L'acte de terrorisme contre un représentant d'un Etat étranger

Art. 125 L'attaque dirigée contre des institutions bénéficiant de la protection internationale

Art. 126 Le terrorisme international

Art. 127 Le génocide

Art. 128 Les crimes contre la sécurité de l'humanité

Art. 129 La production, le stockage ou la prolifération des moyens interdits de conduite de la guerre

Art. 130 L'incitation à une haine raciale, ethnique ou religieuse

Art. 131 L'écocide

Art. 132 Le recrutement, la formation, le financement et l'utilisation des mercenaires

Art. 133 Le mercenariat

Art. 134 L'emploi des armes de destruction massive

Art. 135 La violation des lois et des coutumes de la guerre

Art.136 Les infractions criminelles aux normes du droit international humanitaire pendant les conflits armés

Art.137 L'omission ou le fait de donner un ordre criminel en situation de conflit armé

Art. 138 Les abus des signes protégés par les traités internationaux

Art. 385 Les abus de l'emblème de la Croix-Rouge, du Croissant-Rouge

Law of the Republic of Belarus 30 April 2008 No. 332 Z On joining of the Republic of Belarus to the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War to the Convention on the Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (Protocol V)

Attachment

Commission on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Resolution of the Council of Ministers on the establishment for the Commission on the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Regulations of the Commission for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the adoption of the Statues of the Commission for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Statutes of the Commission for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law

Belgium

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Law of 4 July 1956 relative to the protection of designations, signs and emblems of the red cross

Ministerial Order of 1 April 1977 determining the model of the distinctive emblem which may be apposed on protected monuments and sites by Royal Order (Applicable for the Flemish Community)

Art. 1

Art. 2

Order of the Executive of the Walloon Region of 7 June 1990 relative to the apposition of a distinctive emblem on protected monuments and sites

Order of the Government of the Germanophone Community of 13 March 1995 relative to the apposition of a distinctive emblem on protected monuments and sites

Order of the Government of the Region Brussels - Capital of 16 March 1995 relative to the apposition of a distinctive emblem on protected monuments and sites

Penal Code (extracts and full version as at March 2010)

Art. 3 Juridiction territoriale

Art. 4 Juridiction extra-territoriale

Art. 6 Application des lois et réglements particuliers

Art. 66 De la participation de plusieurs personnes au même crime ou délit

Art. 70 Des causes de justification et d'excuse

Art. 71 Des causes de justification et d'excuse

Art. 91 Délai général de la prescription

Art. 95

Art. 96

Art. 100 Dispositions générales

Art. 100bis

Art. 100ter Définition du terme "mineur"

Art. 124 Des crimes contre la surété intérieure de l'Etat

Art. 134 Des crimes contre la sûreté intérieure de l'Etat: l'amnistie

Art. 135 Définition du terme "armes"

Art. 135quater Recrutement de mineurs

Art. 135quinquies

Art. 136bis Génocide

Art. 136ter Crime contre l'humanité

Art. 136quater Crimes de guerre

Art. 136quinquies Peines prévues pour les violations graves du droit international humanitaire

Art. 136sexies La contribution à la commission des violations graves du droit international humanitaire

Art. 136septies

Art. 136octies Absence d'excuses pour violations graves du droit international humanitaire

Art. 137 Des infractions terroristes

Art. 141bis Exception des situations de conflit armé

Art. 141ter Garanties des Droits de l'homme

Art. 147 Arrestation ou détention illégales

Art. 152 Résponsabilité des supérieurs

Art. 254 Des abus d'autorité

Art. 255

Art. 256

Art. 257

Art. 258 Déni de justice

Art. 259

Art. 260 Ordre des supérieurs

Art. 331bis Menace d'utilisation de matières nucléaires, d'armes biologiques ou chimiques

Art. 347bis La prise d'otages

Art. 417bis Définitions des termes "torture", "traitement inhumain" et "traitement dégradant"

Art. 417ter De la torture

Art. 417quater Du traitement inhumain

Art. 417quinquies Du traitement dégradant

Attachment (full version as at March 2010)

Law of 17 April 1878 containing the introductory title of the Code of Criminal Procedure (extracts)

Art. 1bis Les cas d'interdiction des poursuites

Art. 6 Compétence extra-territoriale

Art. 12 Présence de l'inculpé sur le territoire belge

Art. 12bis Autres cas de l'exercice de la compétence extra-territoriale et le rôle du procureur fédéral

Art. 13 Reconnaissance des décisions des autorités judiciaires étrangères

Art. 14 Applicabilité des lois belges

Art. 21 Extinction de l'action publique

Code of Criminal Investigation (extracts)

Art. 22 Compétence des procureurs du Roi

Art. 24

Art. 24bis

Art. 44ter Analyse ADN de comparaison

Art. 56bis Cas dans lesquels les méthodes particulères de recherche peuvent être autorisées

Art. 62bis Compétence des juges d'instruction

Art. 86bis Protection des témoins

Art. 86quinquies

Art. 90ter Des écoutes, de la prise de connaissance et de l'enregistrement de communications et de télécommunications privées (extrait)

Art. 90undecies Analyse ADN à des fins d'investigation

Art. 104 Protection des témoins menacés

Code of the Judiciary (extracts)

Art. 144ter La compétence du procureur fédéral

Art. 144quater Compétence pour des violations graves du droit international humanitaire

Art. 144quinquies Compétence pour les infractions commises par des personnes soumises aux loix militaires

Art. 144sexies Coordination de la facilitation de la coopération internationale

Law of 5 August 2003 on serious violations of international humanitarian law (full version and extracts)

Art. 26

Art. 27 Abrogation de la Loi du 16 juin 1993

Art. 28 Coopération avec la Cour pénale internationale

Art. 29 Disposition transitoire et entrée en vigueur

Attachment (full version in French and Dutch)

Law of 16 June 1993 relative to the repression of serious violations of international humanitarian law, as amended (abrogated)

Law of 22 March 1996 relative to the Recognition of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and of the International Tribunal for Rwanda and to Cooperation with these Tribunals

Art. 1 [Matière visée par la Constitution]

Art. 2 [Obligations de coopération]

Art. 3 [Définitions]

Art. 4 [Coopération judiciaire]

Art. 5 [Autorité centrale compétente]

Art. 6 [Dessaisissement]

Art. 7 [Arrêt de dessaisissement]

Art. 8 [Renvoi]

Art. 9 [Demandes et ordonnances d'entraide judiciaire]

Art. 10 [Execution de la mesure requise]

Art. 11 [Procédure devant une jurisdiction belge]

Art. 12 [Arrestation]

Art. 13 [Transfert]

Art. 14 [Exécution des peines]

Art. 15 [Entrée en vigueur]

Law on cooperation with the ICC and international tribunals, March 2004

[Attachment]

Law of 3 January 1933 relative to the production, trade and carrying of weapons and to the trade of munitions

attachment

Law of 24 June 1996 modifiant la loi du 3 janvier relative à la fabrication etc. des mines antipersonnel

attachment

General order J/836 on new arms and new means of warfare

[Attachment]

Law of 30 March 2000 relative à l'interdiction définitive des mines antipersonnel

attachment

Royal decree (arrêté royal) on the reorganization of the Interdepartmental Committee on Humanitarian Law

[Text]

Internal Rules of the Interministerial Committee on Humanitarian Law

[Text]

Civil Code (extracts)

[Extracts Titre IV]

Law on declarations of death, presumption of death and administrative transcription and correction of certain certificates of death

[Text]

Loi réglant des activités économiques et individuelles avec des armes

Attachment

National Case Law

Prosecutor v. Sargeant W., Brussels War Council, 18 May 1966

Prosecutor v. Sargeant W., Military Court, 14 July 1966

Brussels Court of Appeal (Ch. mis. acc.), 17 May 1995

Court of Cassation (Second French Chamber), 31 May 1995

Court of Cassation (Second French Chamber), 15 May 1996

Court of Cassation (Vacation Chamber), 9 July 1996

Plainte avec constitution de parties civiles contre X (de nationalité rwandaise), Brussels Tribunal (Chambre du conseil), 22 Julliet 1996

Ministère public and Centre pour l'égalité des chances et la lutte contre le racisme v. C... et B..., Military Court, 17 December 1997

Opinion of the Council of State of 21 April 1999 on a legislative proposal approving the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court

Arrêts, plainte des parties civiles contre Yerodia et al

Arrêts, plainte des parties civiles contre Sharon, Yaron et al. (the Sharon affair)

Belize

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Belize Red Cross Society Act, 1983

[Text]

Act No 24 of 2003 giving effect to and to implement the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction in Belize

[Attachment]

Constitution, 1981

Attachment

Criminal Code, 1981 (as at 2000)

Attachment

Benin

General Comment

Constitutional Structure - Implementing Institutions - Comment

Implementing Laws & Regulations

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1967

[Attachment]

Decree No. 69-312/PR-DN on the Regulation of the military service - first part, common to all arms, 1969 (extracts)

Art. 3 §6 [Commander's responsibility]

Art. 4 [Duty to control]

Art. 38 [Categories of offences]

Art. 39 [Duty to maintain discipline by monitoring and punishing]

Directive N° 91-0034, issued by the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Benin Teaching of first aid and international humanitarian law to the Armed Forces of Benin, 1991

[Text]

Decree N°98-155 creating the National Commission on the implementation of international humanitarian law, 1998

Art. 1 [Creation]

Art. 2 [Competence]

Art. 3 [Membership]

Art. 4, 5 et 6 [Working procedures]

Art. 7, 8 et 9 [Assistance]

Art. 10 [Final provisions]

Law No 2004-06 on the use and protection of the red cross and red crescent emblems in Benin

[Attachment]

Bhutan

General Comment