New Zealand

International Crimes and International Criminal Court Act 2000

PART 5 - DOMESTIC PROCEDURES FOR OTHER TYPES OF CO-OPERATION

Restrictions on provision of assistance

115.
Postponement of execution of assistance—

(1)The Attorney-General may postpone the execution of a request for assistance under this Part if, and only if,—

(a)the execution of the request would interfere with an ongoing investigation or prosecution for a different offence and section 117 applies; or

(b)a ruling on admissibility is pending before the ICC and section 118 applies; or

(c)there are competing requests from the ICC and from another State to which New Zealand is under an international obligation and section 119(2)(a) applies; or

(d)the request is for assistance under article 93(1)(l) of the Statute and is one to which section 113(4) applies; or

(e)a request of the kind referred to in section 120(2)(c) is made to the ICC.

(2)Even if a case is one to which subsection (1) applies, the Attorney-General may decide not to postpone the execution of the request, and in that event the request must be dealt with in accordance with this Part.

(3)If the Attorney-General postpones the execution of a request for assistance under this Part, the postponement may be for a reasonable time and may, if the Attorney-General considers it desirable, be extended from time to time.

Cf Statute, articles 93(9), 94, 95

Keywords

Postponement of execution of ICC request



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