CHAPTER
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GENOCIDE |
ARRANGEMENT OF
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SCHEDULE - Article II of the Genocide Convention. |
CHAPTER 85 |
GENOCIDE |
An Act to
create the offence of genocide. | 29 of 1969 |
[Commencement 19th
December, 1969] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Genocide Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act "The Genocide Convention" means
the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9th December 1948. | Interpretation. |
3. (1) A person commits an offence of genocide if he
commits any act falling within the definition of "genocide" in
Article II of the Genocide Convention as set out in the
Schedule. | Genocide. |
(2) A person
guilty of an offence of genocide shall on conviction on information- |
(a) if the
offence consists of the killing of any person, be sentenced to death; |
(b) in any
other case, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. |
(3) Proceedings
for an offence of genocide shall not be instituted except by or with the
consent of the Attorney-General. |
SCHEDULE (Section 3) |
ARTICLE II OF THE
GENOCIDE CONVENTION |
In the present
Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,
as such- |
(a) killing
members of the group; |
(b) causing
serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; |
(c) deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part; |
(d) imposing
measures intended to prevent births within the group; |
(e) forcibly
transferring children of the group to another group. |