South Africa

Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Act No. 27 of 2002)

Chapter 2
Jurisdiction of South African Courts and Institution od Prosecutions in South African Courts in Respect of Crimes (ss 4-5)

5 Institution of prosecutions in South African courts

(3) The National Director must, when reaching a decision on whether to institute a prosecution contemplated in this section, give recognition to the obligation that the Republic, in the first instance and in line with the principle of complementarity as contemplated in Article 1 of the Statute, has jurisdiction and the responsibility to prosecute persons accused of having committed a crime.

Keywords

Complementarity
Individual criminal responsibility



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