Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ACT 2002 - SECT 20

(1)

Subject to section 22, if:

(a)

the Attorney-General receives a request for arrest and surrender of a person; and

(b)

Division 2 has been complied with in respect of the request;

the Attorney-General may, by written notice in the statutory form expressed to be directed to any magistrate, state that the request has been received.

(2)

If the Attorney-General issues such a notice, a copy of any warrant of arrest or judgment of conviction that was issued by the ICC must be attached to the notice.

(3)

A magistrate must issue a warrant, by writing in the statutory form, for the person's arrest if an application is made, in the statutory form, on behalf of the ICC, for issue of a warrant pursuant to the notice.

(4)

After the warrant has been issued, the magistrate must without delay send to the Attorney-General a report stating that the magistrate has issued the warrant.