'Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court' in document 'Trinidad&Tobago - ICC Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART II

INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND OFFENCES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Offences Against Administration of Justice

16. (1) Every person is liable on conviction on Bribery of Judge, etc. indictment to imprisonment for seven years who, in Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere, corruptly gives or offers, or agrees to give, a bribe to any person with intent to influence a Judge in respect of any act or omission by that Judge in his judicial capacity.
(2) Every person is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for five years who, in Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere, corruptly gives or offers, or agrees to give a bribe to any person with intent to influence a Judge or the Registrar or the Deputy Registrar in respect of an act or omission by that Judge, Registrar or Deputy Registrar in his official capacity, other than an act or omission to which subsection (1) applies.

PART II

INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND OFFENCES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Offences Against Administration of Justice

17. (2) Every person is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for three years who, in Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere, corruptly gives or offers, or agrees to give, a bribe to any person with intent to influence an official of the ICC in respect of an act or omission by that officer in his official capacity.
(3) In this section and in section 21, an official of the ICC means a person employed under article 44 of the Statute.

PART II

INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND OFFENCES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Offences Against Administration of Justice

21. Every person is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for seven years who, in Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere—
(b) makes threats or uses force against any Judge, the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar, or any official of the ICC with intent to influence or punish that person, in respect of an act—
(i) done or omitted by that person or any Judge, the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar, or any official of the ICC, in his or her official capacity; or
(ii) to be done or omitted by that person or any Judge, the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar, or any official of the ICC, in his official capacity; or

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties