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Domestic legislation for serious crimes under international law

Crimes

Crime of Aggression

No provision

Crimes Against Humanity

No provision

Genocide

No provision

War Crimes

  • Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Act 2002. Act No. 1 of 2002. An Act to consolidate and amend the Geneva Conventions Act 1958. Republic of Nauru, 11 February 2002. [ENG]

  • Cook Islands Red Cross Society Act 2002. Act No. 2 of 2002. An Act to establish, recognise and regulate the Cook Islands Red Cross Society. Republic of Nauru, 11 February 2002. [ENG]

    Jurisdiction

  • See s. 5 of: Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Act 2002. Act No. 1 of 2002. An Act to consolidate and amend the Geneva Conventions Act 1958. Republic of Nauru, 11 February 2002. [ENG]

    International Criminal Court

    Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Cook Islands acceded to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on 18 July 2008.

  • Resources and Links

  • The Constitution of the Cook Islands. 1964. (Reprinted as at 17 July 1997 with amendments incorporated)
    Ministry of Finance and Economic Management, Government of the Cook islands. [ENG]. [Last accessed 31May17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Cook Islands Constitution Act 1964. 1964 No 69, 17 November 1964
    New Zealand Legislation, Parliamentary Counsel Office. [Last accessed 12Oct17]. [ENG]. [External Link]

  • The Cook Islands Legislation: Acts in Force and Subsidiary Legislation in Force.
    Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, University of the South Pacific School of Law. [ENG]. [Last accessed 12Oct17]. [External Link]

  • Cook Islands Sessional Legislation.
    Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, University of the South Pacific School of Law. [ENG]. [Last accessed 12Oct17]. [External Link]

  • Cook Islands - Chronological Table of Acts.
    Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute, University of the South Pacific School of Law. [ENG]. [Last accessed 12Oct17]. [External Link]

  • List of International Humanitarian Law Treaties to which Cook Islands is a State party. [ENG]
    International Committee of the Red Cross. [ENG] .[Last accessed 12Oct17]. [External Link]