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

119.
Competing requests—

(1)If the Attorney-General receives competing requests for assistance from the ICC and from another State to which New Zealand is under an obligation to respond, the Attorney-General must endeavour, after consultation with the ICC and the other State, to satisfy both requests.

(2)For the purposes of subsection (1), the Attorney-General may do either or both of the following:

(a)postpone the execution of either of the competing requests:

(b)attach conditions to the provision of assistance under either or both of the requests.

(3)If it is not possible to resolve the issue by consultation, the method of dealing with the competing requests must be resolved in accordance with article 90 of the Statute, and sections 61 to 65 apply with any necessary modifications.

Cf Statute, articles 90, 93(9)(a)

Keywords

Competing request
Consultations with the Court



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