Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Act 2017 (c. 6)

Part 1 Key definitions

1 “The Convention” and related expressions

(1) In this Act—

• “the Convention” means the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, done at the Hague on 14 May 1954;

• “the Regulations for the execution of the Convention” means the Regulations for the execution of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict;

• “the First Protocol” means the Protocol to the Convention, done at the Hague on 14 May 1954;

• “the Second Protocol” means the Second Protocol to the Convention, done at the Hague on 26 March 1999.

(2) The text of those instruments is set out in Schedules 1 to 4.

2 “Cultural property”

In this Act “cultural property” has the meaning given in Article 1 of the Convention.