'Pardon' in document 'Bangladesh - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

THE PENAL CODE, 1860 (ACT NO. XLV OF 1860).

CHAPTER III- OF PUNISHMENTS

55A. Nothing in section fifty-four or section fifty-five shall derogate from the right of the President to grant pardons, reprieves, respites or remissions of punishment.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute