PART I – PRELIMINARY
2. Interpretation
In this Act –
“genocide” has the same meaning as in the Statute and in Part II of the Schedule
PART I – PRELIMINARY
2. Interpretation
In this Act –
“international crime” means the crime of genocide, a crime against humanity, or a war crime, and includes an ancillary offence
PART II – OFFENCES AND JURISDICTION OF COURTS OF MAURITIUS
4. International crimes
(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment, any person who commits –
(a) a crime against humanity;
(b) genocide; or
(c) a war crime,
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding 45 years .
(2) Any person who –
(a) directly and publicly incites others to commit genocide; or
(b) contributes to the commission or attempted commission of an international crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose, where such contribution is intentional and is either –
(i) made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court; or
(ii) made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime ,
shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding 45 years.
SCHEDULE
[Section 2]
PART II
GENOCIDE
“genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, by –
(a) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(b) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part;
(c) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(d) killing members of the group;
(e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group .
PART III - FORMS OF MUTUAL ASSISTANCE
6. Procedure for an evidence-gathering order or a search warrant
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4)(a)(i), a statement contained in the request to the effect that -
(b) an international criminal tribunal offence has been or may have been committed,
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;