No objection to proceedings

It shall not be an objection to any proceedings taken against a person by virtue of sections 2 and 3 of this Act that under any law in force at the time when and in the place where he is alleged to have committed the act of which he is accused or of which he is convicted he could not have been punished therefor. 6 SCHEDULE GENOCIDE ACT Article II of Genocide Convention [Section 2] In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such, (a) killing members of the group; (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) 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.