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Domestic legislation for serious crimes under international law

Crimes

Crime of Aggression

No provision found.

Crimes Against Humanity

No provision found.

Related documents:

  • The 10-Point Reparation Plan of the Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC). The Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC), Greater Georgetown, Guyana.

    [Editor's Note: "In 2013 Caribbean Heads of Governments established the Caricom Reparations Commission (CRC) with a mandate to prepare the case for reparatory justice for the region’s indigenous and African descendant communities who are the victims of Crimes against Humanity (CAH) in the forms of genocide, slavery, slave trading, and racial apartheid.
    This document, prepared by the CRC, proposes the delivery of this mandate within the formulation of the Caricom Reparations Justice Program (CRJP). The CRC asserts that victims and descendants of these CAH have a legal right to reparatory justice, and that those who committed these crimes, and who have been enriched by the proceeds of these crimes, have a reparatory case to answer." (Caricom Reparations Commission)
    The ten-point plan proposed by the CRC was unanimously approved at a meeting of CARICOM Nations on 11 March 2014 and is being used as the basis for discussions on reparations.]

    Genocide

    Genocide is defined in Section 2 and in the Schedule of the Genocide Act of Dominica:

  • Genocide Act. (Chapter 10:04). Act 20 of 1969, as amended by Act 19 of 1974.
    Laws of Dominica, 18 December 1969. [ENG]

    War Crimes

  • The Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council, 1959. UK Statutory Instruments, 1959, No. 1301, London.
    [In force according to Schedule 2 ("Transitional Provisions"), s. 2 ("Existing laws") of the Commonwealth of Dominica Constitution Order 1978, Statutory Instruments No. 1027]


    Jurisdiction

  • See Section 2 of: The Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council, 1959. UK Statutory Instruments, 1959, No. 1301, London.
    [In force according to Schedule 2 ("Transitional Provisions"), s. 2 ("Existing laws") of the Commonwealth of Dominica Constitution Order 1978, Statutory Instruments No. 1027]

    International Criminal Court

    Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Dominica acceded to the Rome Statute on 12 February 2001.

  • Resources and Links

  • The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Dominica. (Enacted as Schedule 1 to the Commonwealth of Dominica Constitution Order 1978 (S.I. 1978 No. 1027 (U.K.)
    Political Database of the Americas, Georgetown University. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Commonwealth of Dominica Constitution Order 1978 (S.I. 1978 No. 1027 (U.K.)
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Criminal Law and Procedure Act. (Chapter 12:01)
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Criminal Law and Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2014, Act 3 of 2014.
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Criminal Law and Procedure (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2013, Act 11 of 2013.
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Criminal Law and Procedure (Amendment) Act 2013, Act 2 of 2013.
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Criminal Law and Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1993, Act 13 of 1993.
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Criminal Law and Procedure (Amendment) Act, 1992, Act 10 of 1992.
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link to pdf document]

  • Revised Laws of Dominica 1990, Acts & Statutory Rules and Orders 1991 - 2009.
    Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link]

  • List of International Humanitarian Law Treaties to which Dominica is a State party. [ENG]
    International Committee of the Red Cross. [ENG]. [Last accessed 17Aug17]. [External Link]