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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

GENERAL PART

V C H A P T E R F I V E
CRIMINAL OFFENCE

Force and threat
Article 25a.

(1) An offence shall not be considered criminal if committed under the influence of irresistible force (vis absoluta).
(2) A less severe sanction may be imposed on a perpetrator who committed a criminal offence under the influence of a resistible force or a threat (vis compulsiva or vis moralis).
(3) In the case referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article, the person who applied an irresistible force shall be deemed the perpetrator.