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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A</dc:identifier><dc:title>International Criminal Court Act 2001</dc:title><dc:description>An Act to give effect to the Statute of the International Criminal Court; to provide for offences under the law of England and Wales and Northern Ireland corresponding to offences within the jurisdiction of that Court; and for connected purposes.</dc:description><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:format>text/xml</dc:format><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2024-02-02</dc:modified><dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor><dct:valid>2024-01-04</dct:valid>
					
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RestrictStartDate="2010-04-06"><Title><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">Retrospective application of certain offences</Addition></Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A" id="section-65A"><Pnumber PuncAfter=""><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">65A</Addition></Pnumber><P1para><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/1" id="section-65A-1"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">1</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">Sections 51 and 58 apply to acts committed on or after 1 January 1991.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/2" id="section-65A-2"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">2</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">But those sections do not apply to a crime against humanity, or a war crime within article 8.2(b) or (e), committed by a person before 1 September 2001 unless, at the time the act constituting that crime was committed, the act amounted in the circumstances to a criminal offence under international law.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/3" id="section-65A-3"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">3</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">Section 52 applies to conduct in which a person engaged on or after 1 January 1991, and in subsections (2) and (3) of that section references to an offence include an act or conduct which would not constitute an offence under the law of England and Wales but for this section.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/4" id="section-65A-4"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">4</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">Section 59 applies to conduct in which a person engaged on or after 1 January 1991, and in subsections (2) and (3) of that section references to an offence include an act or conduct which would not constitute an offence under the law of Northern Ireland but for this section.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/5" id="section-65A-5"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">5</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">Any enactment or rule of law relating to an offence ancillary to a relevant Part 5 offence—</Addition></Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/5/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/5/a" id="section-65A-5-a"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">a</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">applies to conduct in which a person engaged on or after 1 January 1991, and</Addition></Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/5/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/5/b" id="section-65A-5-b"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" 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to—</Addition></Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/a" id="section-65A-6-a"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">a</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">conduct in which the person engaged before 1 September 2001, or</Addition></Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/b" id="section-65A-6-b"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">b</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">conduct in which the person engaged on or after that date which was ancillary to an act or conduct which—</Addition></Text><P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/b/i" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/b/i" id="section-65A-6-b-i"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">i</Addition></Pnumber><P4para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">was committed or engaged in before that date, and</Addition></Text></P4para></P4><P4 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/b/ii" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/6/b/ii" id="section-65A-6-b-ii"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">ii</Addition></Pnumber><P4para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">would not constitute a relevant Part 5 offence, or fall within section 52(2) or 59(2), but for this section,</Addition></Text></P4para></P4></P3para></P3><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">unless, at the time the person engaged in the conduct, it amounted in the circumstances to a criminal offence under international law.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/7" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/7" id="section-65A-7"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">7</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">Section 65, so far as it has effect in relation to relevant Part 5 offences—</Addition></Text><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/7/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/7/a" id="section-65A-7-a"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">a</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">applies to failures to exercise control of the kind mentioned in section 65(2) or (3) which occurred on or after 1 January 1991, and</Addition></Text></P3para></P3><P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/7/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/7/b" id="section-65A-7-b"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">b</Addition></Pnumber><P3para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">applies even if the act or conduct constituting the relevant Part 5 offence would not constitute such an offence but for this section.</Addition></Text></P3para></P3></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/8" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/8" id="section-65A-8"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">8</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">But section 65, so far as it has effect in relation to relevant Part 5 offences, does not apply to a failure to exercise control of the kind mentioned in section 65(2) or (3) which occurred before 1 September 2001 unless, at the time the failure occurred, it amounted in the circumstances to a criminal offence under international law.</Addition></Text></P2para></P2><P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/9" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2001/17/section/65A/9" id="section-65A-9"><Pnumber><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">9</Addition></Pnumber><P2para><Text><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">
In this section  “
</Addition><Term><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">relevant Part 5 offence</Addition></Term><Addition ChangeId="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2-1450213523730" CommentaryRef="key-c248525f8f5c6871ba4f49e846bc8be2">
” means an offence under section 51, 52, 58 or 59 or an offence ancillary to such an offence.

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