Chapter 1
General provisions

Article 6
Responsibilities of military commanders and other superiors

1. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Code of Military Justice, any military commander or person acting as such a commander who knows or should know that the forces under his or her effective command and control, or effective responsibility and control, are committing or about to commit any of the crimes defined in this law and fails to take all necessary and reasonable measures to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities, shall be liable to the penalty provided for the crime or crimes that were effectively committed.

Article 28
Responsibility of commanders and other superiors
In addition to other grounds of criminal responsibility under this Statute for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court:
(a) A military commander or person effectively acting as a military commander shall be criminally responsible for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court committed by forces under his or her effective command and control, or effective authority and control as the case may be, as a result of his or her failure to exercise control properly over such forces, where:
(i) That military commander or person either knew or, owing to the circumstances at the time, should have known that the forces were committing or about to commit such crimes; and
(ii) That military commander or person failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his or her power to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution.