''Chapter II Cooperation with the ICC, Section 3 Surrender of an Offender Sought for Surrender, etc., Subsection 1 Surrender of an Offender Sought for Surrender, (Measures by the Minister of Justice)
Article 20''
(1) When the Minister of Justice has received documents sent by the Minister of Foreign Affairs pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 concerning a request for cooperation through the surrender of an offender sought for surrender, he/she shall, except where any of the following items applies, send the relevant documents to the Superintending Prosecutor of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office and order an application to be made to the Tokyo
High Court for examination as to whether the case is one in which the offender sought for surrender may be surrendered:
(i) when the case is found to clearly fall under any of the items of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article or any of the items of paragraph (2) of said Article;
(ii) when the request for cooperation competes with a request for the extradition of a fugitive as prescribed in Article 3 of the Act of Extradition (Act No. 68 of 1953) or with a request for the provisional detention of an offender as prescribed in Article 23, paragraph (1) of said Act and, where it is possible to give priority to the relevant request for extradition or provisional detention pursuant to the provisions of the Statute, when it is found appropriate to extradite the fugitive or to provisionally detain the offender;
(iii) when complying with the request for cooperation would result in a breach of any of the obligations under international law or obligations under international agreements prescribed in article 98 of the Statute;
(iv) when complying with the request for cooperation would risk obstructing the investigation or trial in a case connected with a crime other than the offense underlying the cooperation request, that is being investigated by a Japanese public prosecutor, public prosecutor's assistant officer, or judicial police official, or a case connected with a crime other than the offense underlying the cooperation request (limited to a crime committed by a person other than the offender sought for surrender), that is pending before a Japanese court, and it is found inappropriate to immediately comply with said request; or
(v) when there are any other justifiable grounds for not immediately complying with the request for cooperation.
(2) The Minister of Justice may conduct an inquiry into the whereabouts of the offender sought for surrender and other necessary matters, when he/she finds it necessary to do so in order to issue an order under the provisions of the preceding paragraph or to take any other measures concerning the surrender of an offender sought for surrender.
1. A State Party which receives a request from the Court for the surrender of a person under article 89 shall, if it also receives a request from any other State for the extradition of the same person for the same conduct which forms the basis of the crime for which the Court seeks the person's surrender, notify the Court and the requesting State of that fact.
2. Where the requesting State is a State Party, the requested State shall give priority to the request from the Court if:
(a) The Court has, pursuant to article 18 or 19, made a determination that the case in respect of which surrender is sought is admissible and that determination takes into account the investigation or prosecution conducted by the requesting State in respect of its request for extradition; or
(b) The Court makes the determination described in subparagraph (a) pursuant to the requested State's notification under paragraph 1.
3. Where a determination under paragraph 2 (a) has not been made, the requested State may, at its discretion, pending the determination of the Court under paragraph 2 (b), proceed to deal with the request for extradition from the requesting State but shall not extradite the person until the Court has determined that the case is inadmissible. The Court's determination shall be made on an expedited basis.
4. If the requesting State is a State not Party to this Statute the requested State, if it is not under an international obligation to extradite the person to the requesting State, shall give priority to the request for surrender from the Court, if the Court has determined that the case is admissible.
5. Where a case under paragraph 4 has not been determined to be admissible by the Court, the requested State may, at its discretion, proceed to deal with the request for extradition from the requesting State.
6. In cases where paragraph 4 applies except that the requested State is under an existing international obligation to extradite the person to the requesting State not Party to this Statute, the requested State shall determine whether to surrender the person to the Court or extradite the person to the requesting State. In making its decision, the requested State shall consider all the relevant factors, including but not limited to:
(a) The respective dates of the requests;
(b) The interests of the requesting State including, where relevant, whether the crime was committed in its territory and the nationality of the victims and of the person sought; and
(c) The possibility of subsequent surrender between the Court and the requesting State.
7. Where a State Party which receives a request from the Court for the surrender of a person also receives a request from any State for the extradition of the same person for conduct other than that which constitutes the crime for which the Court seeks the person's surrender:
(a) The requested State shall, if it is not under an existing international obligation to extradite the person to the requesting State, give priority to the request from the Court;
(b) The requested State shall, if it is under an existing international obligation to extradite the person to the requesting State, determine whether to surrender the person to the Court or to extradite the person to the requesting State. In making its decision, the requested State shall consider all the relevant factors, including but not limited to those set out in paragraph 6, but shall give special consideration to the relative nature and gravity of the conduct in question.
Where pursuant to a notification under this article, the Court has determined a case to be inadmissible, and subsequently extradition to the requesting State is refused, the requested State shall notify the Court of this decision.