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3. Grave breaches of Scheduled Conventions.
(1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, whether in or outside the State, 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 :
(a) Article 50 of the Convention set out in the First Schedule to this Act ;
(b) Article 51 of the Convention set out in the Second Schedule to this Act ;
(c) Article 130 of the Convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act ; or
(d) Article 147 of the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act ;
shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction on indictment thereof :
(i) in the case of such a grave breach as aforesaid involving the wilful killing of a person protected by the Convention in question, shall be sentenced to death or to penal servitude for life or any less term ;
(ii) in the case of any other such grave breach as aforesaid, shall be liable to penal servitude for fourteen years or any less term or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility
3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:
(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission