Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT 1957

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   5.      Interpretation  
   6.      Application of Act  
   6A.     Application of the Criminal Code  

   PART III--LEGAL--PROCEEDINGS IN RESPECT OF PROTECTED PERSONS

   10A.    Court may determine whether person is a protected prisoner of war  
   11.     Notice of trial of protected prisoners of war and internees to be served on protecting power etc.  
   12.     Legal representation of prisoners of war  
   13.     Appeals by protected prisoners of war and internees  
   14.     Reduction of sentence and custody of protected prisoners of war and internees  

   PART IV--ABUSE--OF THE RED CROSS AND OTHER EMBLEMS, SIGNS, SIGNALS, IDENTITY CARDS, INSIGNIA AND UNIFORMS

   15.     Use of Red Cross and other emblems, signs, signals, identity cards, insignia and uniforms  

   PART V--REGULATIONS

   16.     Regulations  
           SCHEDULE 1 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of August 12, 1949
           SCHEDULE 2 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea ofAugust 12, 1949
           SCHEDULE 3 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War ofAugust 12, 1949
           SCHEDULE 4 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War ofAugust 12, 1949
           SCHEDULE 5 Protocol Additional to theGenevaConventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I)
           SCHEDULE 6 Protocol Additional to theGenevaConventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III)