Criminal Code Act 1995

Schedule - The Criminal Code  

Section 3

CHAPTER 8 - OFFENCES AGAINST HUMANITY AND RELATED OFFENCES  

Division 268 - Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court  

Subdivision H - War crimes that are grave breaches of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions  

SECTION 268.100  

268.100   War crime - apartheid  
A person (the perpetrator ) commits an offence if:


(a) the perpetrator commits against one or more persons an act that is a proscribed inhumane act or is of a nature and gravity similar to any proscribed inhumane act; and


(b) the perpetrator knows of, or is reckless at to, the factual circumstances that establish the character of the act; and


(c) the perpetrator ' s conduct is committed in the context of an institutionalised regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups; and


(d) the perpetrator intends to maintain the regime by the conduct; and


(e) the conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 17 years.




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