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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 ONE
GENERAL PART

CHAPTER ONE
SCOPE OF THE ACT AND FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Title Two
Foundations of Criminal Liability

DIVISION FOUR
CIRCUMSTANCES EXCLUDING UNLAWFULNESS OF AN ACT

Section 24
Extreme necessity

(1) An act, which otherwise gives rise to criminal liability, shall not be considered as a criminal offence if it is performed in order to avert a direct threat to an interest protected under this Act.

(2) Extreme necessity shall not be invoked where the direct threat to an interest protected under this Act could have been, under given circumstances, averted otherwise, or where the caused consequence is apparently more serious than the probable consequence of the threat. Likewise, extreme necessity shall not be invoked where the person facing a direct threat has the duty prescribed by a generally binding legal regulation to accept the risk of such a threat.