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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Book ONE
General Provisions on Crimes and Punishments

Part One
Crimes

Chapter Five
Reasons for Rejecting the Characteristic of a Crime

Section Three
The Rejection of Material Ground and the Negation of Error

Physical Coercion and Force Majeur

Article (35):
A person is not deemed to have committed a crime if such an act which constituted the crime was committed under substantial compulsory pressure that is impossible to resist or due to force majeur, where in such case the compelling person11 is, responsible for the crime committed accordingly. This excludes murder and human torture, wherein the responsibility is not waived for both the compelled perpetrator and the compelling person thereof.