'Prohibited weapons' in document 'Mauritius - ICC Act 2011'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

SCHEDULE
[Section 2]

PART III
WAR CRIME

"War crime" means -

(b)
(ix) employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
(x) employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions;
(xi) employing poison or poisoned weapons;
(xii) employing weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict, provided that such weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare are the subject of a comprehensive prohibition and are included in an annex to the Statute, by an amendment in accordance with the relevant provisions set forth in Articles 121 and 123;

SCHEDULE
[Section 2]

PART III
WAR CRIME

"War crime" means -

(d)
(xiii) employing poison or poisoned weapons;
(xiv) employing asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all analogous liquids, materials or devices;
(xv) employing bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions