'Intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group' in document 'Australia - War crimes Act 1945'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

An Act to provide for the Trial and Punishment of War Criminals

Part II—Interpretation

(3) A serious crime is a war crime if it was:

(a) committed:

(i) in the course of political, racial or religious persecution; or

(ii) with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such; and

(b) committed in the territory of a country when the country was involved in a war or when territory of the country was subject to an occupation.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 6
Genocide
For the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.