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The Geneva Conventions Act (First Protocol) Order 1998

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2011-07-04

GENEVA CONVENTIONS

This Order, made under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, as amended by the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995, sets out the reservations and declarations made by the United Kingdom when ratifying Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions 1949. Section 7(3)(b) of the Act provides that for the purposes of the Act the Protocol shall be construed subject to and in accordance with such reservations and declarations. The text of the Protocol is in the Schedule to the 1995 Act. The Order will come into force on the date on which Protocol I enters into force in relation to the United Kingdom.