INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ACT 2002 - SECT 69 Compellability of persons to attend etc.

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT ACT 2002 - SECT 69

  (1)   Subject to subsections   ( 2) and (3), the laws of each State or Territory with respect to compelling persons:

  (a)   to attend before a magistrate; and

  (b)   to give evidence, answer questions, and produce documents or other articles;

on the hearing of a charge against a person for an offence against the law of that State or Territory apply, so far as they are capable of application, with respect to so compelling persons for the purposes of this Division.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Division, the person to whom the investigation conducted by the Prosecutor, or the proceeding before the ICC, relates, is competent but not compellable to give evidence.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   a person is required to give evidence, or produce documents or other articles, for the purposes of an investigation conducted by the Prosecutor or a proceeding before the ICC; and

  (b)   the person is not compellable to answer a particular question, or to produce a particular document or article, for the purposes of that investigation or proceeding;

the person is not compellable to answer the question, or produce the document or article, for the purposes of this Division.