Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

WAR CRIMES ACT 1945 - SECT 8

(1)

Subject to subsection 7(2), nothing in section 6 or 7 limits the generality of anything else in that section.

(2)

An act may be a serious crime by virtue of one of more of subsections 6(1), (3), (4) and (5), but not otherwise.

(3)

A serious crime may be a war crime by virtue of either or both of subsections 7(1) and (3), but not otherwise.

(4)

Two or more serious crimes may together constitute a war crime by virtue of subsection 7(4), but not otherwise.