'Improper use of the military insignia and uniform of the United Nations - IAC' in document 'Slovakia - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER TWELVE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PEACE, AGAINST HUMANITY, CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF TERRORISM, EXTREMISM AND WAR CRIMES

Title Two
War Crimes

Section 428
Misuse of Internationally Recognised and National Symbols

(2) The same sentence as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be imposed on any person who, in the wartime, misuses the emblem of the United Nations, national flag, national emblem military emblem, insignias or uniform of a neutral or other state which is not a party to the conflict.

PART TWO
SPECIAL PART

CHAPTER TWELVE
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST PEACE, AGAINST HUMANITY, CRIMINAL OFFENCES OF TERRORISM, EXTREMISM AND WAR CRIMES

Title Two
War Crimes

Section 433
Lawlessness in the Wartime

(1) Any person who commits an act that is deemed to be a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of twelve to twenty-five or to life imprisonment.

(2) The offender shall be liable to life imprisonment if he commits the offence referred to in paragraph 1,

a) and causes grievous bodily harm or death to several persons or other particularly serious consequence through its commission, or
b) in retaliation.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts:
(vii) Making improper use of a flag of truce, of the flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy or of the United Nations, as well as of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions, resulting in death or serious personal injury