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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1] [2] [3]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

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 426
Using Prohibited Weapons and Unlawful Warfare

(2) The same sentence as referred to in paragraph 1 shall be imposed on a commander who, in contravention of the provisions of international law concerning the means and methods of warfare, wilfully

c) destroys or damages a facility designated for humanitarian purposes or an internationally recognised cultural or natural monument.

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.

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 434
Endangering Cultural Values

Any person who, in the wartime,

a) substantially destroys or appropriates objects of cultural value protected under an international agreement,
b) plunders, commits the acts of vandalism or otherwise misuses such object,
c) wages an attack against such object in contravention of an international agreement, or

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:
(ix) 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, provided they are not military objectives