'Pardon' in document 'Guyana - Criminal Law (procedure) Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART III
PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURT

TITLE 8 — PLEADING

Pleas

108. Special pleas allowed to be pleaded.

(1) The following special pleas, and no others, may be pleaded according to the provisions hereinafter contained, that is to say, a plea of autrefois acquit, a plea of autrefois convict, a plea of pardon, and in cases of defamatory libel the plea hereinafter mentioned.

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