ACT
1957 Chapter 52 (U.K.) .. in force 1 September 1959 (S.I. 1959 No. 1301 (UK.))
Amended by S.I. 1959 No. 1301 (UK.) .. in force 1 September 1959
Amended by S.I. 1962 No. 1084 (UK.) .. in force 29 May 1962
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
| 1. | Grave breaches of scheduled conventions |
| 2. | Notice of trial of protected persons to be served on protecting power, etc |
| 3. | Legal representation of certain persons |
| 4. | Appeals by protected persons |
| 5. | Reduction of sentence and custody of protected persons |
| 6. | Use of Red Cross and other emblems |
| 7. | Interpretation |
| 8. | Short title and extent |
| Schedule 1 | |
| Schedule 2 | |
| Schedule 3 | |
| Schedule 4 | |
AN ACT to enable effect to be given to certain international conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and for purposes connected therewith. [31st July, 1957]
WHEREAS, with a view to the ratification by Her Majesty of the conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act, it is expedient to make certain amendments in the law:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Punishment of offenders against conventions