PART III
GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE
32. State or Diplomatic immunity -
(1) Any state or diplomatic immunity attaching to a person or premises by reason of a connection with a State Party to the ICC Statute does not prevent proceedings under this Act, in relation to that person.
(2) If the Minister is of the opinion that a request for provisional arrest, arrest and surrender or other assistance would require Samoa to act inconsistently with its obligations under international law with respect to the State or diplomatic immunity of a person or property of another state which is not a party to the Statute, the Minister shall consult with the ICC and request a determination as to whether article 98(1) of the Statute applies.
(3) If the Minister is of the opinion that a request for provisional arrest or arrest and surrender would require Samoa to act inconsistently with its obligations under an international agreement with a state which is not a party to the Statute pursuant to which the consent of the sending state is required to surrender a person of that State to the ICC, the Minister shall consult with the ICC and request a determination as to whether article 98(2) of the Statute applies.
PART IV
ARREST AND SURRENDER OF PERSON TO ICC
39. Postponement of execution of request for arrest and surrender -
(1) The Minister may postpone the execution of a request for arrest and surrender at any time before the surrender of the person only if –
(c) the Minister is consulting with the ICC under section 32 as to whether or not article 98 of the Statute applies to the execution of the request.
PART IV
ARREST AND SURRENDER OF PERSON TO ICC
41. Official capacity not a bar to arrest and surrender -
Subject to section 32, the existence of any immunity or special procedural rule attaching, under domestic or international law, to a person shall not be a ground for –
(a) refusing or postponing a request by the ICC for the arrest and surrender of that person; or
(b) holding that that person is ineligible for arrest and surrender to the ICC.
PART IX
MISCELLANEOUS
110. Consequential Amendment -
The Head of State Act 1965 is amended by deleting section 5 and substituting the following:
“5. Immunity from legal process-(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Head of State shall be accorded immunity from suit and legal process of any kind whether civil or criminal, including freedom from the arrest of the Head of State’s person, during the Head of State’s term of Office.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect the charging, prosecution and arrest of the Head of State where the Head of State is suspected of or is charged with a crime established under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.’.
2. Las inmunidades y las normas de procedimiento especiales que conlleve el cargo oficial de una persona, con arreglo al derecho interno o al derecho internacional, no obstarán para que la Corte ejerza su competencia sobre ella.
1. La Corte no dará curso a una solicitud de entrega o de asistencia en virtud de la cual el Estado requerido deba actuar en forma incompatible con las obligaciones que le imponga el derecho internacional con respecto a la inmunidad de un Estado o la inmunidad diplomática de una persona o un bien de un tercer Estado, salvo que la Corte obtenga anteriormente la cooperación de ese tercer Estado para la renuncia a la inmunidad.
2. La Corte no dará curso a una solicitud de entrega en virtud de la cual el Estado requerido deba actuar en forma incompatible con las obligaciones que le imponga un acuerdo internacional conforme al cual se requiera el consentimiento del Estado que envíe para entregar a la Corte a una persona sujeta a la jurisdicción de ese Estado, a menos que ésta obtenga primero la cooperación del Estado que envíe para que dé su consentimiento a la entrega.
A partir de la fecha en que la Corte establezca un sistema de seguridad social, las personas a que se hace referencia en los artículos 15, 16 y 17 estarán exentas, en relación con los servicios prestados a la Corte, de toda contribución obligatoria a los sistemas nacionales de seguridad social.