'Competing request - same conduct - State not Party - no international obligation - pending admissibility decision' in document 'New Zealand - ICC Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART 4 - ARREST AND SURRENDER OF PERSON TO ICC

Restrictions on surrender

63.
Procedure where competing request from non-State Party—

(3)Despite subsection (2), no person may be surrendered under the Extradition Act 1999 unless and until the ICC makes its decision on admissibility and determines that the case is inadmissible.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 90
Competing requests
4. If the requesting State is a State not Party to this Statute the requested State, if it is not under an international obligation to extradite the person to the requesting State, shall give priority to the request for surrender from the Court, if the Court has determined that the case is admissible.