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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

SECTION FOUR. RELEASE FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND SENTENCE

CHAPTER XV. AMNESTY, PARDON, PREVIOUS CONVICTION

Article 77. Amnesty
1. Amnesty shall be declared by the Parliament of Georgia toward individually unspecified persons.
2. The criminal may be released from criminal liability under the act of amnesty and the convict may be released from the sentence or the sentence awarded against him/her may be commuted to a less severe sentence.
3. The act of amnesty may quash the previous conviction of the person who has served s sentence.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute;