The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Elements of Crimes) Regulations 2001
S.I. 2001/2505 · Made 10 July 2001 · Extends to United Kingdom
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Made 10th July 2001
Laid 12th July 2001
Coming into force 1st September 2001
In exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 50(3) of the International Criminal Court Act 2001f1, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:
Annotations to the whole text
Textual amendments
- F1
Regulations revoked (E.W.N.I.) (4.5.2004) by The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Elements of Crimes) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1080), regs. 1(1), 3
Footnotes
- f1
Contents
- 1Citation, commencement and extent
- 2The Elements of Crimes
- Signature
- Schedule Elements of Crimes
- Part: Elements of crimes
- General Introduction
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- 8Paragraph 8
- 9Paragraph 9
- 10Paragraph 10
- Part Article 6: Genocide
- Introduction
- Part Article 6(a): Genocide by killing
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 6(b): Genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 6(c): Genocide by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 6(d): Genocide by imposing measures intended to prevent births
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 6(e): Genocide by forcibly transferring children
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 7: Crimes against humanity
- Introduction
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 7(1)(a): Crime against humanity of murder
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 7(1)(b): Crime against humanity of extermination
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 7(1)(c): Crime against humanity of enslavement
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 7(1)(d): Crime against humanity of deportation or forcible transfer of population
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 7(1)(e): Crime against humanity of imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 7(1)(f): Crime against humanity of torture
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 7(1)(g)–1: Crime against humanity of rape
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 7(1)(g)–2: Crime against humanity of sexual slavery
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 7(1)(g)–3: Crime against humanity of enforced prostitution
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 7(1)(g)–4: Crime against humanity of forced pregnancy
- Element
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 7(1)(g)–5: Crime against humanity of enforced sterilization
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 7(1)(g)–6: Crime against humanity of sexual violence
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 7(1)(h): Crime against humanity of persecution
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 7(1)(i): Crime against humanity of enforced disappearance of persons
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- 8Paragraph 8
- Part Article 7(1)(j): Crime against humanity of apartheid
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 7(1)(k): Crime against humanity of other inhumane acts
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8: War crimes
- Introduction
- Part Article 8(2)(a): Article 8(2)(a)(i)
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(ii)–1: War crime of torture
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(iii)–2: War crime of inhuman treatment
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(ii)–3: War crime of biological experiments
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(iii): War crime of wilfully causing great suffering
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(iv): War crime of destruction and appropriation of property
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(v): War crime of compelling service in hostile forces
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(vi): War crime of denying a fair trial
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(vii)–1: War crime of unlawful deportation and transfer
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(vii)–2: War crime of unlawful confinement
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(a)(viii): War crime of taking hostages
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b): Article 8(2)(b)(i)
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(ii): War crime of attacking civilian objects
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(iii): War crime of attacking personnel or objects involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(iv): War crime of excessive incidental death, injury or damage
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(v): War crime of attacking undefended places
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(vi): War crime of killing or wounding a person hors de combat
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(vii)–1: War crime of improper use of a flag of truce
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(vii)–2: War crime of improper use of a flag, insignia or uniform of the hostile party
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(vii)–3: War crime of improper use of a flag, insignia or uniform of the United Nations
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(vii)–4: War crime of improper use of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(viii): The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(ix): War crime of attacking protected objects
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(x)–1: War crime of mutilation
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(x)–2: War crime of medical or scientific experiments
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xi): War crime of treacherously killing or wounding
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xii): War crime of denying quarter
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xiii): War crime of destroying or seizing the enemy’s property
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xiv): War crime of depriving the nationals of the hostile power of rights or actions
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xv): War crime of compelling participation in military operations
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xvi): War crime of pillaging
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xvii): War crime of employing poison or poisoned weapons
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xviii): War crime of employing prohibited gases, liquids, materials or devices
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xix): War crime of employing prohibited bullets
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xx): War crime of employing weapons, projectiles or materials or methods of warfare listed in the Annex to the Statute
- Elements
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxi): War crime of outrages upon personal dignity
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxii)–1: War crime of rape
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxii)–2: War crime of sexual slavery
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxii)–3: War crime of enforced prostitution
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxii)–4: War crime of forced pregnancy
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxii)–5: War crime of enforced sterilization
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxii)–6: War crime of sexual violence
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxiii): War crime of using protected persons as shields
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxiv): War crime of attacking objects or persons using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxv): War crime of starvation as a method of warfare
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(b)(xxvi): War crime of using, conscripting or enlisting children
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(c): Article 8(2)(c)(i)–1
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(c)(i)–2: War crime of mutilation
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(c)(i)–3: War crime of cruel treatment
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(c)(i)–4: War crime of torture
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(c)(ii): War crime outrages upon personal dignity
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(c)(iii): War crime of taking hostages
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(c)(iv): War crime of sentencing or execution without due process
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(e): Article 8(2)(e)(i)
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(ii): War crime of attacking objects or persons using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(iii): War crime of attacking personnel or objects involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(iv): War crime of attacking protected objects
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(v): War crime of pillaging
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vi)–1: War crime of rape
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vi)–2: War crime of sexual slavery
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vi)–3: War crime of enforced prostitution
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vi)–4: War crime of forced pregnancy
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vi)–5: War crime of enforced sterilization
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vi)–6: War crime of sexual violence
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(vii): War crime of using, conscripting and enlisting children
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(viii): War crime of displacing civilians
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(ix): War crime of treacherously killing or wounding
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(x): War crime of denying quarter
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(xi)–1: War crime of mutilation
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(xi)–2: War crime of medical or scientific experiments
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- Part Article 8(2)(e)(xii): War crime of destroying or seizing the enemy’s property
- Elements
- 1Paragraph 1
- 2Paragraph 2
- 3Paragraph 3
- 4Paragraph 4
- 5Paragraph 5
- 6Paragraph 6
- 7Paragraph 7
- Explanatory note