Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ACT 2002 - SECT 51

(1)

The Attorney-General must refuse a request for cooperation in circumstances referred to in subsection 142(4) (which relates to third party information that cannot be disclosed).

(2)

The Attorney-General may refuse a request for cooperation:

(a)

in circumstances referred to in Part 8 (which relates to the protection of national security interests); or

(b)

if there are competing requests from the ICC, and from a foreign country that is not a party to the Statute, relating to the same conduct, and subsection 59(4) applies; or

(c)

if there are competing requests from the ICC, and from a foreign country, relating to different conduct, and subsection 60(3) applies.