'Individual commission' in document 'Trinidad and Tobago - Geneva Conventions Act'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART II
PUNISHMENT OF OFFENDERS UNDER THE CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOL I

3. Punishment of grave breaches of the Conventions and Protocol I

3. (1) A person, whatever his nationality, who, in Trinidad and Tobago or elsewhere, commits or aids, abets or procures any other person to commit a grave breach of any of the Conventions or of Protocol I, commits an indictable offence and is liable on conviction to the penalty specified in subsection (2).

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