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The purpose of this Order is threefold; first to extend to the Territories specified in Schedule 1 the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 so that the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem, of 8 December 2005, which prescribes a new humanitarian symbol to be known as the Red Crystal, can be extended to those Territories; second to extend to those Territories the amendments to the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 made by the International Criminal Court Act 2001; and third to consolidate the Orders extending the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, as amended, to the Territories.
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