Trinidad and Tobago

The International Criminal Court Act 2006

PART V
DOMESTIC PROCEDURES FOR OTHER TYPES OF CO-OPERATION

Restrictions on Provision of Assistance

115. (1) The Attorney General may postpone the execution of a request for assistance under this Part if—
(a) the execution of the request would interfere with an ongoing investigation or prosecution for a different offence and section 117 applies;
(b) a ruling on admissibility is pending before the ICC and section 118 applies;
(c) there are competing requests from the ICC and from another State to which Trinidad and Tobago is under an international obligation and section 119(2)(a) applies;
(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 post¬pone 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 execu¬tion 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.


Keywords

Postponement of execution of ICC request



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