Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Act No. 27 of 2002)

State:South Africa
Date: July 12, 2002
Language:English
Status:Enacted
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Relevant Keywords

Any other form of sexual violence - IAC
Any other form of sexual violence - NIAC
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Apartheid - crimes against humanity
Applicability
Arrest
Arrest for ICC proceedings - national procedures
Attacking or bombarding towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives - IAC
Availability of additional procedures
Availability of procedures under national law
Biological experiments - IAC
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
Change in designation of State of enforcement
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Communication with the ICC
Compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power - IAC
Compelling nationals of hostile party to take part in operations of war against their own country - IAC
Complementarity
Conscripting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Conscripting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Consent to surrender
Consultations with the Court
Contents of request - other forms of assistance
Contents of request for arrest and surrender
Contents of request for arrest and surrender - national law requirements
Contents of request for provisional arrest
Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence
Crimes against humanity
Cruel treatment - NIAC
Customary international law
Declaring abolished, suspended or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of a hostile party - IAC
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
Denial of quarter - IAC
Denial of quarter - NIAC
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - IAC
Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless imperative - NIAC
Detention during transit
Detention pending surrender
Employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices - IAC
Employing bullets which flatten or expand - IAC
Employing poison or poisoned weapons - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which are inherently indiscriminate - IAC
Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare which cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering - IAC
Enforced disappearance - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - IAC
Enforced prostitution - NIAC
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enforced sterilisation - IAC
Enforced sterilisation - NIAC
Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity
Enforcement of fines
Enforcement of forfeiture orders
Enforcement of national penalties - fines
Enforcement of national penalties - imprisonment
Enforcement of sentence of imprisonment
Enforcement of sentences imposed
Enlisting children under 15 into armed forces or groups - NIAC
Enlisting children under 15 into the national armed forces - IAC
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Entry into force
Escape - ICC proceedings
Examination of places or sites - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Examination of witnesses - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Extensive appropriation of property - IAC
Extensive destruction of property - IAC
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Facilitating voluntary appearance of persons - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Forced pregnancy - IAC
Forced pregnancy - NIAC
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Forcible transfer of population - crimes against humanity
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
Forfeiture of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Freezing of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Gender
Genocide
Giving false testimony
Grave breaches - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - IAC
Humiliating and degrading treatment - NIAC
ICC privileges and immunities
ICC sitting in State territory
Identification and whereabouts of persons - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Identification of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Immunity - national proceedings
Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Improper use of a flag of truce - IAC
Improper use of the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the flag of the enemy - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC
Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy - IAC
Individual criminal responsibility
Inhuman treatment - IAC
Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against buildings, material, medical units and transport using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, medical units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against installations, material, units or vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in a peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel involved in humanitarian assistance - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against personnel using the emblems of the Geneva Conventions - NIAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - IAC
Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population - NIAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause environmental damage - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental damage to civilian objects - IAC
Intentionally launching attacks that will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians - IAC
Intentionally starving as method of warfare - IAC
Interim release pending surrender
Internal disturbances and tensions (riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature)
Internal disturbances and tensions (riots, isolated and sporadic acts of violence or other acts of a similar nature) - protracted armed conflict
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction of custodial State or State where present
Jurisdiction ratione temporis
Killing members of the group
Killing or wounding a combatant who has laid down his arms and surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding a combatant who no longer has means of defence and has surrendered at discretion - IAC
Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary - NIAC
Killing or wounding treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army - IAC
Knowledge of the attack - crimes against humanity
Location of items - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Manifestly unlawful order
Medical experiments - IAC
Medical experiments - NIAC
Murder - NIAC
Murder - crimes against humanity
Mutilation - IAC
Mutilation - other serious violations of laws and customs of war - NIAC
Mutilation - serious violation of Common Article 3 - NIAC
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National procedures for execution of cooperation request
National procedures re enforcement of sentences imposed
National prosecution for offences against the administration of justice
Nationality jurisdiction - national proceedings
Non-modification of sentence by State
Non-retroactivity
Not affording judicial guarantees to the passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions - NIAC
Obligation to cooperate
Offences against administration of justice
Ordering displacement of the civilian population - NIAC
Other forms of cooperation
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Other serious violations of the laws and customs - NIAC
Other types of assistance
Outrages upon personal dignity - IAC
Outrages upon personal dignity - NIAC
Passive personality jurisdiction
Periodical review by ICC regarding reduction of sentence
Persecution - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Pillaging - IAC
Pillaging - NIAC
Presenting false or forged evidence
Preservation of evidence - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Proceeds of crimes
Production of evidence - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Provision of records and documents - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Provisional arrest
Provisional arrest for ICC proceedings - national procedures
Questioning of persons - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Rape - IAC
Rape - NIAC
Rape - crimes against humanity
Refusal of ICC request
Release prior to surrender
Reparations to victims - ICC proceedings
Request for arrest and surrender
Request for other forms of cooperation
Request for provisional arrest
Residence Jurisdiction
Retaliating against an official of the Court
Scientific experiments - IAC
Scientific experiments - NIAC
Search and seizure - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Seizure of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Sentencing - national proceedings
Serious violations of Common Article 3 - NIAC
Service of documents - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Severe deprivation of physical liberty - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - IAC
Sexual slavery - NIAC
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court
Superior orders - national proceedings
Surrender
Surrender - obligation
Surrender - procedures
Taking of evidence - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Taking of hostages - IAC
Taking of hostages - NIAC
Temporary transfer of persons in custody for purposes of identification or for obtaining testimony or other forms of assistance - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Territorial jurisdiction - national proceedings
Torture - IAC
Torture - NIAC
Torture - crimes against humanity
Tracing of assets - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Transfer of fines to the ICC
Transfer of forfeitures to the ICC
Transfer of sentenced person to State
Transfer of sentenced person to another State
Transferring own civilians into occupied territory - IAC
Transferring population of an occupied territory - IAC
Transit proceedings
Transportation and transit through State territory for surrender
Unique provision - substantive law
Unlawful confinement - IAC
Unlawful deportation - IAC
Unlawful transfer - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - IAC
Using children under 15 to participate actively in hostilities - NIAC
Utilising the presence of a civilian or other protected person to render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations - IAC
Victims' protection - national procedures for ICC proceedings
Violations of laws and customs - IAC
War crimes
Widespread or systematic attack - crimes against humanity
Wilful killing - IAC
Wilfully causing great suffering - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to body - IAC
Wilfully causing serious injury to health - IAC
Wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial - IAC
Willingness to accept sentenced persons
Witness protection - national procedures for ICC proceedings