'National penalties - maximum penalty' in document 'Botswana - Geneva Convention Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

An Act to enable effect to be given in Botswana to certain international conventions made at Geneva on the 12th of August, 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.

Punishment of Offenders Against Conventions

3. (1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside Botswana,commits, or aids, abets or procures the commission by any other person of, any such grave breach of any of the
scheduled conventions as is referred to in the following articles respectively of those conventions, that is to say-

(ii) in the case of any other such grave breach as aforesaid, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years.