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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Section V. Exemption from Criminal Liability and Punishment

Article 76. Exemption from Criminal Liability and Punishment on the Basis of an Act of Amnesty or Pardon

1. An act of amnesty shall be issued by the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan with regard to a circle of persons who are not individually defined.

2. On the basis of an amnesty act, persons having committed crimes may be exempt from criminal liability. Persons convicted for the commission of a crime may be either exempt from punishment, or punishment sentenced upon them may be reduced or substituted for a more lenient type of punishment, or such persons may be exempt form an additional type of punishment. From persons who served punishment or are released from its further endurance, an amnesty act may remove a conviction.

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;