New Zealand

International Crimes and International Criminal Court Act 2000

PART 4 - ARREST AND SURRENDER OF PERSON TO ICC

Miscellaneous provisions relating to arrest and surrender

79. Information about time spent in custody in New Zealand—

(1) If the ICC requests the surrender of a person, and that person is detained in a New Zealand prison or any other place at any time pending surrender, the prison manager of the prison or the head of the other place must keep a record of the time spent in custody as if the person were charged with an offence against the law of New Zealand and were on remand.

(2) The prison manager or the head of the other place must, if requested, provide to the Minister a certificate recording—

(a) the date on which the person was admitted to a prison or any other place to be held in custody in relation to the request; and

(b) the total period during which the person was detained in custody during the process leading to the surrender of the person to New Zealand in relation to the offence or offences; and

(c) whether the person was, at any time during the period in custody in relation to the surrender, also serving a sentence for an offence against New Zealand law .

(3)The Minister must provide to the ICC at the time of the surrender of the person, or as soon as possible after that, a certificate recording the information specified in subsection (2) and such other information relating to any period spent in custody in relation to the surrender as the ICC may request.

Cf 1999 No 55 s 62(1); Statute, article 78(2)

Keywords

Fair trial standards
Provisional arrest - detention pending surrender
Detention pending surrender



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