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The relevant provisions of implementing legislation: [1] [2]
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

Several persons causing event
53.— (1) Where an event is caused by acts of several persons acting either jointly or independently, each of those persons who has intentionally, recklessly or negligently contributed to cause the event shall, subject to the provisions of Part IV of this Chapter, be deemed to have caused the event.

(2) Any excuse or justification applicable in respect of any one of those persons shall be applicable to any person regardless of whether such excuse or justification is applicable in respect of any of the other persons.

CHAPTER TWO
Offences

PART I
OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON

Sub-Part A – Homicide

Murder and Manslaughter

Capitalmurder
86.(2) Where in the case of any murder referred to in subsection (1), (other than a murder referred to in paragraph (e)), two or more persons commit that murder, it shall be capital murder in the case of any of them who by his or her own act caused the death of, or inflicted or attempted to inflict grievous bodily harm on, the person murdered, or who himself or herself used violence on that person in the course or furtherance of an attack on that person; but the murder shall not be capital murder in the case of any other of the persons committing it.

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.