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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER ONE
General Provisions

PART III
LIABILITY AND MENS REA

Causing an Event

Causing event by involuntary agent
52.— (1) Where a person intentionally, recklessly or negligently causes any involuntary agent to cause an event, that person shall be deemed to have caused the event.

(2) Where a person outside the jurisdiction of the Courts causes an involuntary agent to cause an event within the jurisdiction of the Courts, he or she shall be deemed to have caused the event within the jurisdiction of the Courts.

(3) “Involuntary agent”, means any animal or other thing, or the person who is exempted from liability to punishment for causing the event, by reason of infancy, or mental disorder, or otherwise under the provisions of this Part of this Chapter.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

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:
(a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible