CHAPTER 85
GENOCIDE
3. (1) A person commits an offence of genocide if Genocide. he commits any act falling within the definition of “genocide” in Article II of the Genocide Convention as set Schedule. out in the Schedule.
CHAPTER 85
GENOCIDE
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.
1. The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this Statute with respect to the following crimes:
(a) The crime of genocide;