Criminal Code

State:Malta
Date: June 10, 1854
Language:English
Status:Enacted
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Abetting
Admissibility of evidence - national proceedings
Age of criminal responsibility - national proceedings
Aggression
Aiding
Any other form of sexual violence - IAC
Any other form of sexual violence - NIAC
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
Appeal against decision of acquittal or conviction or against sentence - national proceedings
Appeal relating to a decision granting or denying release of the person being investigated or prosecuted - national proceedings
Appearance of victims - national proceedings
Applicable law
Arrest
Arrest for ICC proceedings - national procedures
Arrest for ICC proceedings - obligation
Arrest for national proceedings
Assistance of States in the attendance and testimony of witnesses and production of documents
Assisting
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Attempt
Awareness of conflict - crimes against humanity
Awareness of conflict - war crimes
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Command responsibility - national proceedings
Commission through another person
Common purpose
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling nationals of hostile party to take part in operations of war against their own country - IAC
Competent national authority
Competent national judicial authority
Conscripting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Conspiracy
Contents of request
Contents of request for arrest and surrender
Contents of request for arrest and surrender - national law requirements
Continuous criminal offences
Contribution
Cooperation of State
Cooperation under procedures of national law
Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence
Crimes against humanity
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of a hostile party - IAC
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Denial of quarter - IAC
Denial of quarter - NIAC
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - NIAC
Detention pending surrender
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - IAC
Enforced prostitution - NIAC
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enforced sterilisation - IAC
Enforced sterilisation - NIAC
Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity
Enforcement of fines
Enforcement of forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - conditions of imprisonment
Enforcement of national penalties - fines
Enforcement of national penalties - forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - imprisonment
Enforcement of sentence of imprisonment
Enforcement of sentences imposed
Enlisting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Examination of witnesses - national proceedings
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Fair trial standards
Forced pregnancy - IAC
Forced pregnancy - NIAC
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Forcible transfer of population - crimes against humanity
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Forfeiture of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Freezing of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Gender
Genocide
Giving false testimony
Grave breaches - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - NIAC
ICC investigation - national procedures
ICC privileges and immunities
Identification and whereabouts of persons - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Identification of assets - national proceedings
Immunity
Immunity - national proceedings
Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Incitement - other crimes
Incitement to genocide
Individual criminal responsibility
Inducing
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Insanity - national proceedings
Intent - national proceedings
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, medical units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - NIAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians - IAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Internal disturbances and tensions (riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature) - protracted armed conflict
Intoxication - national proceedings
Joint commission
Joint sentence following multiple convictions - national proceedings
Jurisdiction
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary - NIAC
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army - IAC
Knowledge - national proceedings
Knowledge of the attack - crimes against humanity
Language
Legal Aid
Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Mental element
Murder - NIAC
Murder - crimes against humanity
Mutilation - IAC
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
Mutilation - serious violation of Common Article 3 - NIAC
National judicial procedures protecting witnesses from identification – witness protection
National penalties - maximum penalty
National penalties - national proceedings
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National procedures re enforcement of sentences imposed
National proceedings on admission of guilt
Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings
Necessity - national proceedings
Not affording judicial guarantees to the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions - NIAC
Offences against administration of justice
Ordering
Ordering displacement of the civilian population - NIAC
Other forms of cooperation
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Other serious violations of the laws and customs - NIAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - NIAC
Passive personality jurisdiction
Persecution - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Pillaging - IAC
Pillaging - NIAC
Presenting false or forged evidence
Preservation of evidence - national proceedings
Priority of Rome Statute over national law
Procedure for witness testimony - national proceedings
Production of evidence - national proceedings
Protected persons
Protection of safety of physical or psychological well-being of victims, witnesses and families
Protective jurisdiction
Providing means
Provisional arrest
Provisional arrest - detention pending surrender
Provisional arrest - release - national proceedings
Provisional arrest for national proceedings
Rape - IAC
Rape - NIAC
Rape - crimes against humanity
Recidivism of criminal offences
Reduction of national sentence following pre-trial detention - national proceedings
Request for arrest and surrender
Request for cooperation
Residence Jurisdiction
Revision of conviction or sentence - national proceedings
Rights during investigation - arbitrary arrest or detention and deprivation of liberty
Rights during investigation - legal assistance
Rights during investigation - remain silent
Rights during investigation - self incrimination
Rights during trial - conduct defence in person
Rights during trial - examine witnesses
Rights during trial - free communication with counsel
Rights during trial - informed promptly and in detail of charges
Rights during trial - interpretation and translation
Rights during trial - legal assistance
Rights during trial - present at trial
Rights during trial - raise defences
Rights during trial - remain silent
Rights during trial - tried without undue delay
Rights during trial - unsworn oral or written statement in defence
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC
Search and seizure - national proceedings
Seizure of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Sentencing - national proceedings
Serious violations of Common Article 3 - NIAC
Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - IAC
Sexual slavery - NIAC
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
Soliciting
Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court
State privileges and immunities
Statute of limitations - national proceedings
Superior / subordinate relationship (civilian) - national proceedings
Superior / subordinate relationship (military) - national proceedings
Superior responsibility - national proceedings
Surrender
Surrender - obligation
Surrender - procedures
Taking of evidence - national proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Taking of hostages - NIAC
Temporary transfer of persons in custody for purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other forms of assistance - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Temporary transfer of persons in custody for purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other forms of assistance - national proceedings
Territorial jurisdiction - national proceedings
Torture - IAC
Torture - NIAC
Torture - crimes against humanity
Tracing of assets - national proceedings
Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC
Transferring population of an occupied territory - IAC
Trials in absentia
Unique provision - modes of liability
Unique provision - other crimes
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - NIAC
Utilising the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations - IAC
Victims' protection - national proceedings
Victims' rights - national proceedings
Violations of laws and customs - IAC
War crimes
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Witness protection - national proceedings
Witnesses' rights - national proceedings