'Individual commission' in document 'Timor-Leste - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BOOK I
GENERAL PART

TITLE II
ON CRIME

CHAPTER III
PERPETRATORS OF CRIME

Article 29. Perpetrators

Participation in the commission of a crime may take on the form of principal authorship, instigation or complicity and there can be various joint participants in the same act.

Article 30. Authorship

1. A principal is the person who commits the act either directly or through a third party who serves as an instrument for the former.

2. Coprincipals of an act are any persons who, by expressed or tacit agreement, take direct part in commission of a crime or join forces in commission of the same crime.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible