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

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART VI – EXECUTION OF SENTENCES

CAPITAL SENTENCES

212. The Court shall inform every person condemned to death of the period within which, if he desires to appeal, his notice of appeal or of his application for leave to appeal must be given.

213. (1) In the case of a conviction involving sentence of death the sentence shall not in any case be executed until
a. after the expiration of the time within which a notice of appeal or of an application for leave to appeal may be given ; or
b. in the case of a petition, after the expiration of forty-two days from the date of the decision of the Court of Appeal, and if, within the appropriate time allowed, any such notice is given or petition is made, the sentence shall not be executed until the appeal or petition is finally rejected or the application for leave to appeal is finally refused, as the case may be.