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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

The General Part

Title II
Offences

Chapter II
Justifying causes

State of necessity

Art.23 - (1) An act provided in the criminal law committed by a person in order to save his/ her own life, corporal integrity or health or those of another person or an important asset of his/her own or of another person or a general interest, from imminent danger that could not be removed otherwise shall not be considered an offence.

(2) A person who, at the moment of perpetration, did not realise that he/she was causing obviously more serious consequences than those that could have occurred had the danger not been removed, shall also be in a state of necessity.