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

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

Chapter II
Crimes

Section II
War crimes

Article 15
War crimes against property

1. Anyone who, in the context of an international armed conflict or a non-international armed conflict:

(a) Appropriates, destroys or damages property on a large scale or of great value, in a manner not justified by military necessity or carried out unlawfully or wantonly;

shall be punished with a term of imprisonment of 5 to 15 years.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 8
War crimes
2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:
(e) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of
an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of
the following acts:
(xii) Destroying or seizing the property of an adversary unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of the conflict.