Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p259
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 259/268)
Character Range: 1027872–1030766

works of art and places of worship constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples and have been given special protection by special arrangement (for example, within the framework of a competent international organisation); and
 (d) the perpetrator's conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 20 years.

Subdivision J—Crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court

268.102  Perjury
 (1) A person commits the offence of perjury if:
 (a) the person makes a sworn statement in or for the purposes of a proceeding before the International Criminal Court; and
 (b) the statement is false.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (2) A person who is an interpreter commits the offence of perjury if:
 (a) the person, by a sworn statement, gives an interpretation of a statement or other thing in or for the purposes of a proceeding before the International Criminal Court; and
 (b) the interpretation is false or misleading.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

268.103  Falsifying evidence
 (1) A person commits an offence if the person makes false evidence with the intention of:
 (a) influencing a decision on the institution of a proceeding before the International Criminal Court; or
 (b) influencing the outcome of such a proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.
 (2) A person commits an offence if the person:
 (a) uses evidence that is false evidence and that the person believes is false evidence; and
 (b) is reckless as to whether or not the use of the evidence could:
 (i) influence a decision on the institution of a proceeding before the International Criminal Court; or
 (ii) influence the outcome of such a proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.
 (3) For the purposes of this section, making evidence includes altering evidence, but does not include perjury.

268.104  Destroying or concealing evidence
 (1) A person commits an offence if the person destroys or conceals evidence with the intention of:
 (a) influencing a decision on the institution of a proceeding before the International Criminal Court; or
 (b) influencing the outcome of such a proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.
 (2) For the purposes of this section, destroying evidence includes making the evidence illegible, indecipherable or otherwise incapable of being identified.

268.105  Deceiving witnesses
  A person commits an offence if the person deceives another person with the intention that the other person or a third person will:
 (a) give false evidence in a proceeding before the International Criminal Court; or
 (b) withhold true evidence at such a proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.

268.106  Corrupting witnesses or interpreters
 (1) A person commits an offence if the person provides, or offers or promises to provide, a benefit to another