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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BOOK II — PERSONS PUNISHABLE, EXCUSABLE OR RESPONSIBLE

44 Minor under 14 acting without discernment

Where an accused person is under the age of 14 and it is determined that he acted without discernment, he shall be acquitted, but shall, according to thecircumstances of his case, be handed over to his relations or placed in a reformatory to be brought up and detained during such number of years as the sentence may which period shall in no case exceed the period at which the accused will
have reached the age of 18.

BOOK II — PERSONS PUNISHABLE, EXCUSABLE OR RESPONSIBLE

45 Minor under 14 acting with discernment

Where it is decided an accused person under the age of 14 acted with discernment, he shall be condemned to imprisonment in a reformatory for such time as shall be determined by the judgment.