Genocide Act

Article II of Genocide Convention

ENACTED by the Legislature of the Cayman Islands. Short title This Law may be cited as the Genocide Law (2015 Revision). Definition In this Law — “Genocide Convention” means the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 9th December, 1948. Genocide (1) A person commits an offence of genocide if he commits any act falling within the definition of “genocide” in Article II of the Genocide Convention as set out in the Schedule. (2) A person who commits an offence of genocide shall, on conviction on indictment — (a) if the offence consists of the killing of any person, be sentenced to imprisonment for life; or (b) in any other case, be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. (3) Proceedings for an offence of genocide shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Article II of Genocide Convention In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group, as such- (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Publication in consolidated and revised form authorised by the Cabinet this 14th day of July, 2015. Meredith Hew Acting Clerk of Cabinet