Part 1 Offences

9BF1Provision supplemental to section 9A: modification of penalties

1

This section applies in relation to—

a

an offence under section 1 of this Act on account of an act committed before 17 December 2001 constituting genocide, if at the time the act was committed it also amounted to an offence under section 1 of the Genocide Act 1969,

b

an offence under section 1 of this Act on account of an act committed before 1 September 2001 constituting a war crime, if at the time the act was committed it also amounted to an offence under section 1 of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 (c.52) (grave breaches of the Conventions),

c

an offence ancillary to an offence within paragraph (a) or (b) above.

2

Section 3(5) of this Act has effect in relation to such an offence as if for “30 years” there were substituted 14 years.