Chapter 1 General provisions

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Regulations of the Court

Chapter 1

General provisions

Regulation 1

Adoption of these Regulations

1. These Regu lations have been adopted pursuant to a rticle 52 and shall be read subjec t

to the Statute and the Ru les.

2. These Regu lations have been adopted i n English and Fre nch. Translations i n the

off‌icial la nguages of the Court are e qually authentic.

Regulation 21

Use of terms

1. In these Regu lations:

- “article” refers to an a rticle of the Statute;

- “Assembly” refers to the As sembly of States Parties to the Statute;

- “Chamber” refer s to a Chamber of the Court;

- “Chief Custody Of f‌icer” refers to the off‌icer appointed by the C ourt as the head

of the staff of t he detention centre;

- - “counsel” refers to a defence c ounsel and a legal r epresentative of a v ictim,

whether lead or associ ate counsel;

- “Court” refer s to the International Cri minal Court;

- “Deputy Prose cutor” refers to a Deputy Prosec utor of the Court;

- “Deputy Regi strar” refers to the Deput y Registrar of the Cour t;

- “detained person” refers to any per son detained in a detention centre;

- “detention centre” refers to any pri son facilit y other than the pr ison facil ity

described i n article 103, paragraph 4, ma intained by the Cour t or maintained by

other authorities a nd made available to the Court;

- “Division” refe rs to a Division of the Court;

- “Elements of Cri mes” refers to the Elements of Crimes as de scribed in artic le 9;

- “host State” refers to the Net herlands;

- “judge” refers to a judge of the Cour t;

- “list of cou nsel” refers to the list of cou nsel as described in r ule 21, sub-rule 2, and

shall als o include legal represe ntatives of vict ims, and thos e counsel retai ned

without legal as sistance paid by the Court who w ish to be entered in the list;

- “Off‌ice of the Pros ecutor” refers to the organ of the Co urt as described i n article

34;

1 Amended 2 Novemb er 2011, entered into force 2 9 June 2012 (terms “counse l” and “list of cou nsel” amended).