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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1] [2]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

Chapter Three
GENERAL PROVISIONS ON CRIMINAL OFFENCE

1. Criminal Offence and Perpetrator

Self-defence

Article 22

(1) An act committed in self-defence shall not constitute a criminal offence.

(2) Self-defence shall be understood to mean such defence as is absolutely necessary for the perpetrator to avert an immediate and unlawful attack on himself or on any other person.

(3) In the event that the perpetrator has acted beyond the limits of justifiable self defence, his sentence may be reduced ; if he has so acted by reason of great excitement or fright provoked by the attack, the sentence may be withdrawn.

GENERAL PART

Chapter Three

GENERAL PROVISIONS ON CRIMINAL OFFENCE

1. Criminal Offence and Perpetrator

Self-defence
Article 22

(1) An act committed in self-defence shall not constitute a criminal offence.

(2) Self-defence shall be understood to mean such defence as is absolutely necessary for the perpetrator to avert an immediate and unlawful attack on himself or on any other person.

(3) In the event that the perpetrator has acted beyond the limits of justifiable self defence, his sentence may be reduced; if he has so acted by reason of great excitement or fright provoked by the attack, the sentence may be withdrawn.