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

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

First Book
General Provisions

Section Three

CHAPTER ONE
Penal Responsibility and its Obstacles

Part Two
Obstacles to Penal Responsibility

Second : Lack of Will

2. Compulsion

Article 95

A person who for the sake of saving his own soul or good or the soul or good of someone else comes to face great and immediate danger, such as not to be able to ward it off without committing an act of crime, shall not be considered responsible provided that the person has not deliberately caused the said danger and that the damage to be avoided should be greater than the damage from the act of crime.