Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p256
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 256/268)
Character Range: 1020285–1023032

persons nor carried out in the interest or interests of the person or persons; and
 (d) the person or persons are in the power of another party to the conflict; and
 (e) the conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an armed conflict that is not an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for life.
 (2) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator subjects one or more persons to a medical or scientific experiment; and
 (b) the experiment seriously endangers the physical or mental health, or the integrity, of the person or persons; and
 (c) the perpetrator's conduct is neither justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the person or persons nor carried out in the interest or interests of the person or persons; and
 (d) the person or persons are in the power of another party to the conflict; and
 (e) the conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an armed conflict that is not an international armed conflict.
Penalty for a contravention of this subsection: Imprisonment for 25 years.

268.94  War crime—destroying or seizing an adversary's property
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator destroys or seizes certain property; and
 (b) the property is property of an adversary; and
 (c) the property is protected from the destruction or seizure under article 14 of Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions; and
 (d) the perpetrator knows of, or is reckless as to, the factual circumstances that establish that the property is so protected; and
 (e) the destruction or seizure is not justified by military necessity; and
 (f) the perpetrator's conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an armed conflict that is not an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years
 (2) Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(c).

Subdivision H—War crimes that are grave breaches of Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions

268.95  War crime—medical procedure
  A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator subjects one or more persons to a medical procedure; and
 (b) the procedure seriously endangers the physical or mental health, or the integrity, of the person or persons; and
 (c) the perpetrator's conduct is not justified by the state of health of the person or persons; and
 (d) the perpetrator knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the conduct is consistent with generally accepted medical standards that would be applied under similar medical circumstances to persons who are of the same nationality as the perpetrator and are in no way deprived of liberty; and
 (e) the person or persons are in the power of, or are interned, detained or otherwise