Australia

International Criminal Court Act (2002), No. 41, 2002

An Act to facilitate compliance by Australia with obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and for related purposes

Part 3 Requests by the ICC for arrest and surrender of persons

Division 3—Arrest of persons

21 Arrest following request for provisional arrest

(1) Subject to section 22, if:

the Attorney-General receives a request for provisional arrest of a person; and
Division 2 has been complied with in respect of the request;

the Attorney-General may, by written notice in the statutory form expressed to be directed to any magistrate, state that the request has been received.

(2) If the Attorney-General issues such a notice, a magistrate must issue a warrant, by writing in the statutory form, for the person’s arrest if an application is made, in the statutory form, on behalf of the ICC, for issue of a warrant pursuant to the notice.

(3) After the warrant has been issued, the magistrate must without delay send to the Attorney-General a report stating that the magistrate has issued the warrant.

Keywords

Provisional arrest
Provisional arrest for ICC proceedings - national procedures



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