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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

Chapter III
CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ELIMINATE THE CRIMINAL NATURE OF AN ACT

Article 36. Legitimate Defense

(1) An act provided by criminal law and committed in legitimate defense is not a crime.

(2) A person who commits an act in order to repel a direct, immediate, material, and real attack against him/herself, against another person, or against a public interest and which seriously endangers the person or the rights of the attacked person or the public interest shall be in a state of legitimate defense.

(3) A person who commits an act set forth in paragraph (2) in order to prevent someone violently entering into a house or other space thus endangering a person's life or health or by a threat of such violence shall be in a state of legitimate defense.