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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001-elements-of-crimes-regulations-2001/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2505",
  "legislation_title": "The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (Elements of Crimes) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001-elements-of-crimes-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Elements of Crimes",
  "text": "Explanatory note: The structure of the elements of the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes follows the structure of the corresponding provisions of articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute. Some paragraphs of those articles of the Rome Statute list multiple crimes. In those instances, the elements of crimes appear in separate paragraphs which correspond to each of those crimes to facilitiate the identification of the respective elements.\nContents\nGeneral introduction…\nArticle 6: Genocide\nIntroduction…\n6(a)\nGenocide by killing…\n6(b)\nGenocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm…\n6(c)\nGenocide by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction…\n6(d)\nGenocide by imposing measures intended to prevent births…\n6(e)\nGenocide by forcibly transferring children…\nArticle 7: Crimes against humanity\nIntroduction…\n7(1)(a)\nCrime against humanity of murder…\n7(1)(b)\nCrime against humanity of extermination…\n7(1)(c)\nCrime against humanity of enslavement…\n7(1)(d)\nCrime against humanity of deportation or forcible transfer of population…\n7(1)(e)\nCrime against humanity of imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty…\n7(1)(f)\nCrime against humanity of torture…\n7(1)(g)–1\nCrime against humanity of rape…\n7(1)(g)–2\nCrime against humanity of sexual slavery…\n7(1)(g)–3\nCrime against humanity of enforced prostitution…\n7(1)(g)–4\nCrime against humanity of forced pregnancy…\n7(1)(g)–5\nCrime against humanity of enforced sterilization…\n7(1)(g)–6\nCrime against humanity of sexual violence…\n7(1)(h)\nCrime against humanity of persecution…\n7(1)(i)\nCrime against humanity of enforced disappearance of persons…\n7(1)(j)\nCrime against humanity of apartheid…\n7(1)(k)\nCrime against humanity of other inhumane acts…\nArticle 8: War crimes\nIntroduction…\nArticle 8(2)(a)\n8(2)(a)(i)\nWar crime of wilful killing…\n8(2)(a)(ii)–1\nWar crime of torture…\n8(2)(a)(ii)–2\nWar crime of inhuman treatment…\n8(2)(a)(ii)–3\nWar crime of biological experiments…\n8(2)(a)(iii)\nWar crime of wilfully causing great suffering…\n8(2)(a)(iv)\nWar crime of destruction and appropriation of property…\n8(2)(a)(v)\nWar crime of compelling service in hostile forces…\n8(2)(a)(vi)\nWar crime of denying a fair trial…\n8(2)(a)(vii)–1\nWar crime of unlawful deportation and transfer…\n8(2)(a)(vii)–2\nWar crime of unlawful confinement…\n8(2)(a)(viii)\nWar crime of taking hostages…\nArticle 8(2)(b)\n8(2)(b)(i)\nWar crime of attacking civilians…\n8(2)(b)(ii)\nWar crime of attacking civilian objects…\n8(2)(b)(iii)\nWar crime of attacking personnel or objects involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission…\n8(2)(b)(iv)\nWar crime of excessive incidental death, injury, or damage…\n8(2)(b)(v)\nWar crime of attacking undefended places…\n8(2)(b)(vi)\nWar crime of killing or wounding a person hors de combat…\n8(2)(b)(vii)–1\nWar crime of improper use of a flag of truce…\n8(2)(b)(vii)–2\nWar crime of improper use of a flag, insignia or uniform of the hostile party…\n8(2)(b)(vii)–3\nWar crime of improper use of a flag, insignia or uniform of the United Nations…\n8(2)(b)(vii)–4\nWar crime of improper use of the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions…\n8(2)(b)(viii)\nThe 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…\n8(2)(b)(ix)\nWar crime of attacking protected objects…\n8(2)(b)(x)–1\nWar crime of mutilation…\n8(2)(b)(x)–2\nWar crime of medical or scientific experiments…\n8(2)(b)(xi)\nWar crime of treacherously killing or wounding…\n8(2)(b)(xii)\nWar crime of denying quarter…\n8(2)(b)(xiii)\nWar crime of destroying or seizing the enemy’s property…\n8(2)(b)(xiv)\nWar crime of depriving the nationals of the hostile power of rights or actions…\n8(2)(b)(xv)\nWar crime of compelling participation in military operations…\n8(2)(b)(xvi)\nWar crime of pillaging…\n8(2)(b)(xvii)\nWar crime of employing poison or poisoned weapons…\n8(2)(b)(xviii)\nWar crime of employing prohibited gases, liquids, materials or devices…\n8(2)(b)(xix)\nWar crime of employing prohibited bullets…\n8(2)(b)(xx)\nWar crime of employing weapons, projectiles or materials or methods of warfare listed in the Annex to the Statute…\n8(2)(b)(xxi)\nWar crime of outrages upon personal dignity…\n8(2)(b)(xxii)–1\nWar crime of rape…\n8(2)(b)(xxii)–2\nWar crime of sexual slavery…\n8(2)(b)(xxiii)–3\nWar crime of enforced prostitution…\n8(2)(b)(xxii)–4\nWar crime of forced pregnancy…\n8(2)(b)(xxii)–5\nWar crime of enforced sterilization…\n8(2)(b)(xxii)–6\nWar crime of sexual violence…\n8(2)(b)(xxiii)\nWar crime of using protected persons as shields…\n8(2)(b)(xxiv)\nWar crime of attacking objects or persons using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions…\n8(2)(b)(xxv)\nWar crime of starvation as a method of warfare…\n8(2)(b)(xxvi)\nWar crime of using, conscripting or enlisting children…\nArticle 8(2)(c)\n8(2)(c)(i)–1\nWar crime of murder…\n8(2)(c)(i)–2\nWar crime of mutilation…\n8(2)(c)(i)–3\nWar crime of cruel treatment…\n8(2)(c)(i)–4\nWar crime of torture…\n8(2)(c)(ii)\nWar crime of outrages upon personal dignity…\n8(2)(c)(iii)\nWar crime of taking hostages…\n8(2)(c)(iv)\nWar crime of sentencing or execution without due process…\nArticle 8(2)(e)\n8(2)(e)(i)\nWar crime of attacking civilians…\n8(2)(e)(ii)\nWar crime of attacking objects or persons using the distinctive emblems of the Geneva Conventions…\n8(2)(e)(iii)\nWar crime of attacking personnel or objects involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission…\n8(2)(e)(iv)\nWar crime of attacking protected objects…\n8(2)(e)(v)\nWar crime of pillaging…\n8(2)(e)(vi)–1\nWar crime of rape…\n8(2)(e)(vi)–2\nWar crime of sexual slavery…\n8(2)(e)(vi)–3\nWar crime of enforced prostitution…\n8(2)(e)(vi)–4\nWar crime of forced pregnancy…\n8(2)(e)(vi)–5\nWar crime of enforced sterilization…\n8(2)(e)(vi)–6\nWar crime of sexual violence…\n8(2)(e)(vii)\nWar crime of using, conscripting and enlisting children…\n8(2)(e)(viii)\nWar crime of displacing civilians…\n8(2)(e)(ix)\nWar crime of treacherously killing or wounding…\n8(2)(e)(x)\nWar crime of denying quarter…\n8(2)(e)(xi)–1\nWar crime of mutiliation…\n8(2)(e)(xi)–2\nWar crime of medical or scientific experiments…\n8(2)(e)(xii)\nWar crime of destroying or seizing the enemy’s property…",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. in force at 1.9.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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