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such capacity, or other senior state officials based on their functions, during their
tenure of office.
Article 46B
Individual Criminal Responsibility
1.
A person who commits an offence
individually responsible for the crime.
under
this
Statute
shall
be
held
2,
Subject to the provisions of Article 46Abis of this Statute, the official
position of any accused person shall not relieve such person of criminal
responsibility nor mitigate punishment.
3.
The fact that any of the acts referred to in article 28A of the present
Statute was committed by a subordinate does not relieve his or her
superior of criminal responsibility if he or she knew or had reason to know
that the subordinate was about to commit such acts or had done so and
the superior failed to take the necessary and reasonable measures to
prevent such acts or to punish the perpetrators thereof.
4.
The fact that an accused person acted pursuant to the order of a
Government or of a superior shall not relieve him or her of criminal
responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation
Court determines that justice so requires.
of punishment
if the
Article 46C
Corporate Criminal Liability
1.
For the purpose of this Statute, the Court shall have jurisdiction over legal
2;
Corporate intention to commit an offence may be established by proof that
it was the policy of the corporation to do the act which constituted the
persons, with the exception of States.
offence.
3.
A policy may be attributed to a corporation where it provides the most
reasonable explanation of the conduct of that corporation.
4.
Corporate knowledge of the commission of an offence may be established
by proof that the actual or constructive knowledge of the relevant
information was possessed within the corporation.
6;
Knowledge may be possessed within a corporation even
relevant information is divided between corporate personnel.
though
the