The International Criminal Court Act 2001 (c. 17) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act incorporates into English law and Northern Ireland law the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The principal aims of the Act are:
In 2006, three British military personnel were charged with inhumane treatment, a war crime, under the Act. Two of the three soldiers were cleared but the third, Corporal Donald Payne, became the first British person to be convicted of a war crime under this Act, when he admitted to inhumanly treating Baha Mousa. The first prosecution for crimes against humanity under the Act occurred in 2026 when a former member of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate was charged with murder and conduct ancillary to murder.
The corresponding Act of the Scottish Parliament is the International Criminal Court (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 13).
This section was inserted by section 1 (The Special Court for Sierra Leone) of the act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom called the (c. 7). The International Tribunals (Sierra Leone) (Application of Provisions) Order 2007 (SI 2007/2140) was made under this section.
This act and the order made under it authorised the detention of Charles Taylor in the UK, but their application is not confined to him.