PART I – GENERAL PROVISIONS

CHAPTER IV – GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

7. Ignorance of law
Ignorance of the law does not afford any excuse for any act or omission which would otherwise constitute an offence unless knowledge of the law by the offender is expressly declared to be an element of the offence.

PART I—PRELIMINARY

International Crimes

7. (1) For the purposes of proceedings for an offence under section 6, the following provisions of the Rome Statute shall apply, with any necessary modifications—

(j) article 32 (which relates to mistakes of fact or law);