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2.
The Working Group shall comprise no less than three and no more than five
members of the Committee. The Working Group shall elect its own officers, develop its
own working methods, and apply as far as possible the rules of procedure of the Committee
to its meetings. The members of the Working Group shall be elected by the Committee
every other session.
3.
The Working Group may designate Rapporteurs from among its members to deal
with specific complaints.
Rule 113
Conditions for admissibility of complaints
With a view to reaching a decision on the admissibility of a complaint, the
Committee, its Working Group or a Rapporteur designated under rules 104 or 112,
paragraph 3, shall ascertain:
(a)
That the individual claims to be a victim of a violation by the State party
concerned of the provisions of the Convention. The complaint should be submitted by the
individual himself/herself or by his/her relatives or designated representatives, or by others
on behalf of an alleged victim when it appears that the victim is unable personally to submit
the complaint, and, when appropriate authorization is submitted to the Committee;
(b)
unfounded;
(c)
That the complaint is not an abuse of the Committee’s process or manifestly
That the complaint is not incompatible with the provisions of the Convention;
(d)
That the same matter has not been and is not being examined under another
procedure of international investigation or settlement;
(e)
That the individual has exhausted all available domestic remedies. However,
this shall not be the rule where the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged or
is unlikely to bring effective relief to the person who is the victim of the violation of this
Convention;
(f)
That the time elapsed since the exhaustion of domestic remedies is not so
unreasonably prolonged as to render consideration of the claims unduly difficult by the
Committee or the State party.
Rule 114
Interim measures
1.
At any time after the receipt of a complaint, the Committee, a working group, or the
Rapporteur(s) on new complaints and interim measures may transmit to the State party
concerned, for its urgent consideration, a request that it take such interim measures as the
Committee considers necessary to avoid irreparable damage to the victim or victims of
alleged violations.
2.
Where the Committee, the Working Group, or Rapporteur(s) request(s) interim
measures under this rule, the request shall not imply a determination of the admissibility or
the merits of the complaint. The State party shall be so informed upon transmittal.
3.
The decision to grant interim measures may be adopted on the basis of information
contained in the complainant’s submission. It may be reviewed, at the initiative of the State
party, in the light of timely information received from that State party to the effect that the
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