Samoa

International Criminal Court Act 2007, No.26

PART II
INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

6. Crimes against humanity -
(1) Every person who, in Samoa or elsewhere, commits a crime against humanity shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction after trial on indictment, to the penalty specified in subsection (3).

(2) For the purposes of this section, “crime against humanity” is an act specified in article 7 of the Statute and includes any other act which, at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes a crime against humanity according to customary international law or conventional international law or by virtue of it being criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations, whether or not it constitutes a contravention of the law in force at the time and in the place of its commission.

(3) Any person who is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) shall be punishable to a maximum period of life imprisonment.

Keywords

Crimes against humanity
National penalties - crimes against humanity
National penalties - life imprisonment



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