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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

First Book
General Provisions

Section One
Preliminary Provisions

CHAPTER ONE
General Principles and Definitions

Article 3 :

No one can be punished but in accordance with the provisions of the law which has been enforced before commitment of the act under reference.

First Book
General Provisions

Section One
Preliminary Provisions

CHAPTER TWO
Applicability of the Law

Part Two
Applicaticn of the Law from the Point of View of Time

Article 21 :

(1) A person committing a crime is punished in accordance with a law that is in force at the time of commitment of the act, except when before pronouncement of the final verdict a new law which is in favour of the accused comes into force.

(2) If a law comes into force after the pronouncement of the final verdict which does not consider the act for which the person committing it has been sentenced to a punishment, execution of the Sentence shall be suspended and the penal effects based on it shall be removed.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 23
Nulla poena sine lege
A person convicted by the Court may be punished only in accordance with this Statute.