National penalties - maximum penalty

Belize

Belize - Criminal Code 2000 EN

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XIV - Crimes Against the Public Peace

240. Every person who uses any violence with intent to deter any person from acting in any manner as a judge, magistrate, juror, witness, counsel, agent, prosecutor or party, in any legal proceeding or inquiry, or from acting in execution of his duty as a magistrate or peace officer, or in any judicial or official capacity, or from having recourse to any court or public officer, or on account of his having so acted or had recourse, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

250. Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, with intent to cause the conviction of any person for a crime punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.

251. Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, with intent to cause the conviction of any person for any crime not capital, shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years or for any greater term to which such person would, on conviction of that crime, be liable.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

254. Every person who fabricates false evidence, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert, the course of justice in any proceeding, shall be liable to the same penalties as if he had committed perjury in that proceeding.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

258. Every person who unlawfully, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, removes, conceals, injures or alters, any instrument or document used or intended to be used in any judicial proceeding, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

260. Every person who with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, endeavours to deceive any court or judicial officer by personation, or by any false instrument, document, seal or signature, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

262. Every person who in any manner wilfully causes any person to disobey any summons, subpoena or order, for his attendance as a witness in any proceeding, or for the production by him of any written or other evidence in any judicial proceeding, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

263. Every person who with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice at the trial of any person for any crime, in any manner causes any person to refrain from giving evidence at such trial is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Belize - Genocide Act 2000 EN

BELIZE - GENOCIDE ACT

2. (3) A person found guilty of an offence of genocide shall on conviction on indictment-

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(b) in any other case, be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years.

Rome Statute

Article 77 Applicable penalties

1. Subject to article 110, the Court may impose one of the following penalties on a person convicted of a crime referred to in article 5 of this Statute:

(a) Imprisonment for a specified number of years, which may not exceed a maximum of 30 years; or

(b) A term of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme gravity of the crime and the individual circumstances of the convicted person.

2. In addition to imprisonment, the Court may order:

(a) A fine under the criteria provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence;

(b) A forfeiture of proceeds, property and assets derived directly or indirectly from that crime, without prejudice to the rights of bona fide third parties.