Anti-Apartheid (United Nations Convention) Act 1981

THE ANTI-APARTHEID (UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION) ACT, 1981

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THE ANTI-APARTHEID (UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION) ACT, 1981 ________ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS __________ SECTIONS 1. Application of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Punishment for international criminal responsibility. Offences by companies, organisations or institutions. Previous sanction of the Central Government for arrest or prosecution.

THE ANTI-APARTHEID (UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION) ACT, 1981

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Section 1 — Short title and extent

Section 2 — Application of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid

Section 3 — Punishment for international criminal responsibility

Section 4 — Offences by companies, organisations or institutions

Section 5 — Place of trial

Section 6 — Previous sanction of the Central Government for arrest or prosecution

THE ANTI-APARTHEID (UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION) ACT, 1981 ACT NO. 48 OF 1981 [18th December, 1981.] An Act to give effect to the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. WHEREAS an International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on the Thirtieth day of November, 1973; AND WHEREAS India, having acceded to the said Convention, should make provisions for giving effect to it; BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called The Anti-Apartheid (United Nations Convention) Act, 1981. (2) It extends to the whole of India. Application of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.—(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law, such of the provisions of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid as are setout in the Schedule shall have the force of law in India. (2) The Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Schedule in conformity with any amendments, duly made and adopted, of the provisions of the said Convention set out therein. (3) Every notification issued under sub-section (2) shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is issued, before each House of Parliament. Punishment for international criminal responsibility.—Every person to whom international criminal responsibility applies under article III of the said Convention, as set out in the Schedule, shall be punished with death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

7. Provisions as to Extradition Act.—For the purposes of the Extradition Act, 1962 (34 of 1962),

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Section 7 — Provisions as to Extradition Act

Provisions as to Extradition Act.—For the purposes of the Extradition Act, 1962 (34 of 1962), the offence under section 3 shall not be considered to be an offence of a political character. THE SCHEDULE (See sections 2 and 3) PROVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF Apartheid WHICH SHALL HAVE FORCE OF LAW * * * * * Article II For the purpose of the present Convention, the term “the crime of apartheid”, which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa, shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them: (a) Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the right to life and liberty of person: (i) By murder of members of a racial group or groups; (ii) By the infliction upon the members of a racial group or groups of serious bodily or mental harm, by the infringement of their freedom or dignity, or by subjecting them to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; (iii) By arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment of the members of a racial group or groups; (b) Deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions calculated to cause its or their physical destruction in whole or in part; * * * * * (e) Exploitation of the labour of the members of a racial group or groups, in particular by submitting them to forced labour; (f) Persecution of organisations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and freedoms, because they oppose apartheid. Article III International criminal responsibility shall apply, irrespective of the motive involved, to individuals, members of organisations and institutions and representatives of the State, whether residing in the territory of the State in which the acts are perpetrated or in some other State, whenever they: (a) Commit, participate in, directly incite or conspire in the commission of the acts mentioned in article II of the present Convention; (b) Directly abet, encourage or co-operate in the commission of the crime of apartheid. * * * * * 3