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:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act extended (with modifications) (15.1.2011) by Geneva Conventions (Overseas Territories) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2963), arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1-3
C2Act extended (with modifications) (15.1.2011) by Geneva Conventions Act (Isle of Man) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2964), art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)
C3Act extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) by SI 1966/948 (as amended) (15.1.2011) by The Geneva Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2965), art. 5, Sch. 2
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent