Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060:section:8:p234
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00060
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 234/268)
Character Range: 965332–968187

protected from the destruction or seizure under article 18 of the Third Geneva Convention, article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention or article 54 of Protocol I 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 international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.
 (2) Strict liability applies to paragraph (1)(c).

268.52  War crime—depriving nationals of the adverse power of rights or actions
  A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator effects the abolition, suspension or termination of admissibility in a court of law of certain rights or actions; and
 (b) the abolition, suspension or termination is directed at the nationals of an adverse party; and
 (c) the perpetrator's conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.

268.53  War crime—compelling participation in military operations
 (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator coerces one or more persons by act or threat to take part in military operations against that person's or those persons' own country or forces; and
 (b) the person or persons are nationals of an adverse party; and
 (c) the perpetrator's conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
 (2) It is not a defence to a prosecution for an offence against subsection (1) that the person or persons were in the service of the perpetrator at a time before the beginning of the international armed conflict.

268.54  War crime—pillaging
  A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator appropriates certain property; and
 (b) the perpetrator intends to deprive the owner of the property and to appropriate it for private or personal use; and
 (c) the appropriation is without the consent of the owner; and
 (d) the perpetrator's conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.

268.55  War crime—employing poison or poisoned weapons
  A person (the perpetrator) commits an offence if:
 (a) the perpetrator employs a substance or employs a weapon that releases a substance as a result of its employment; and
 (b) the substance is such that it causes death or serious damage to health in the ordinary course of events through its toxic properties; and
 (c) the perpetrator's conduct takes place in the context of, and is associated with, an international armed conflict.
Penalty: Imprisonment for