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Law on the Statute of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Original Language Title: Rijkswet houdende goedkeuring Statuut van Rome inzake het Internationaal Strafhof

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Rijkswet of 5 July 2001, approving the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998.

We Beatrix, at the grace of God, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, etc. etc. etc.

All of them, who will see or hear these, saluut! do know:

In this regard, we considered that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998, is a consequence of Article 91, first paragraph, of the Constitution the approval of the States-General need, before the Kingdom of which may be bound by it and, in so far as the Statute contains provisions derogating from the Constitution, in particular Article 42 and 71 , approval according to Article 91, third paragraph, of the Constitution must be done;

It is true that we, the Council of State of the Kingdom, and with the common accord of the States-General, have taken into account the provisions of the Statute for the Kingdom, have been deemed to have been approved and understood to be the same as This:


Article 1

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The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998, of which the final text and translation was published in Dutch in Tractatenblad 2000, 120, is hereby approved for the whole of the Kingdom.


Article 2

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The approval provided for in the previous Article shall be adopted, where necessary, with due regard to the provisions of the Article 91, third paragraph, of the Constitution .


Article 3

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Unless the relevant treaty change differs from the Constitution or has been so different, the approval by the States-General of changes in the Article 1 the Convention referred to in Article 121, subject to the amendments referred to in paragraph 5, does not require that Convention, if the deposit of instruments of ratification provided for by paragraph 4 of Article 121 of that Convention the acceptance by seven-eighth of the contracting parties-other than the Kingdom-has taken place.


Article 4

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Unless the relevant treaty change differs from the Constitution or has been so different, the approval by the States-General of changes in the Article 1 the said Convention as referred to in Article 122 of that Convention shall not be required if it is adopted by a Review Conference.


Article 5

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Our Minister for Foreign Affairs shall send the agenda of a meeting of the Assembly of States referred to in Article 112 of the Convention. Article 1 of the said Convention, at least two weeks before that meeting, to the two Chambers of the States-General.


Article 6

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The State Law shall enter into force from the day following the date of issuance of the Official Gazette, in which it is placed.

Charges and orders that it will be placed in the Official Journal of the Netherlands Antilles and in the Gazette of Aruba, and that all ministries, authorities, colleges and officials, who so concern, to the accurate Carry out the hand.

Issued in Gravenhage, 5 July 2001

Beatrix

The Minister for Foreign Affairs,

J. J. van Aartsen

The Minister of Justice,

A. H. Korthals

Published the seventeenth of July 2001

The Minister of Justice,

A. H. Korthals