Part 2 Surrender of Persons

§ 31 Legal Assistance

(1) The suspect may, at any stage of the proceedings, use legal assistance.
(2) An attorney will be ordered as the legal assistance for a suspect who has not chosen legal assistance at the latest after the first examination pursuant to § 14 para. 2 also in connection with § 15 para. 2.
(3) The provisions of Chapter 11 of Part One of the Criminal Procedure Code, with the exception of §§ 140, 141 para. 1-3, and 142 para. 2, apply mutatis mutandis.

Part 2
Surrender of Persons

§ 15
Procedure After Provisional Arrest

(2) § 14 para. 2 applies mutatis mutandis to the examination of the suspect.

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
2. Where there are grounds to believe that a person has committed a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court and that person is about to be questioned either by the Prosecutor, or by national authorities pursuant to a request made under Part 9, that person shall also have the following rights of which he or she shall be informed prior to being questioned:
(c) To have legal assistance of the person's choosing, or, if the person does not have legal assistance, to have legal assistance assigned to him or her, in any case where the interests of justice so require, and without payment by the person in any such case if the person does not have sufficient means to pay for it

This provision follows the ICC Statute.