An Act to provide for the Trial and Punishment of War Criminals#
Part III—War crimes
9 War crime to be indictable offence
(3) For the purposes of an offence against subsection (1), absolute liability applies to the following physical elements of circumstance of the offence:
(a) if subsection 6(1) applies—that the relevant act was, under the law in force at the relevant time in the relevant part of Australia, an offence mentioned in that subsection;
(b) if subsection 6(3) applies—that the law in force at the relevant time in some part of Australia was such that the relevant act would, had it been done at that time in that part, have been a serious crime under subsection 6(1).
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