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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1] [2] [3]
The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER THREE
Procedure

PART IV
SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS

Sub-Part A - Trial of Summary Offences

Adjournment or Immediate Trial Hearing after Adjournment

Case and evidence for defendant
707. The Court shall also hear the defendant and any witnesses as he or she may call and such other evidence as he or she may adduce, in his or her defence.

CHAPTER THREE
Procedure

PART V
PRELIMINARY INQUIRIES AND COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS

SUB-PART B
PROCEEDINGS TO COMPEL APPEARANCE OF ACCUSED AND WITNESS

Committal Proceedings

Committal for trial without consideration of evidence
799.— (1) (b) give evidence himself or herself or call witnesses; or

CHAPTER THREE
Procedure

PART VI
INDICTABLE TRIALS

SUB-PART A
THE TRIAL

Reply for the Prosecution

Defence by counsel and caution to undefended accused
916. (2) Where an accused person is not defended by counsel, then, on the completion of the examination of the witnesses on the part of the prosecution, the Judge shall inform him or her, or cause him or her to be informed, of his or her right to address the jury and to give evidence on his or her own behalf or to remain silent, and also of his or her right to call witnesses in his or her defence.

Opening of case and examining witnesses for defence
917. At every trial for an indictable offence, the accused or his or her counsel shall be entitled to open his or her case, and after the conclusion of such opening, the accused or his or her counsel shall be entitled to examine such witnesses as he or she thinks fit, and when all the evidence is concluded, to sum up the evidence by way of an address to the jury.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 67
Rights of the accused
1. In the determination of any charge, the accused shall be entitled to a public hearing, having regard to the provisions of this Statute, to a fair hearing conducted impartially, and to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality:
(e) To examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him or her and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his or her behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him or her. The accused shall also be entitled to raise defences and to present other evidence admissible under this Statute