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Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (c)
(c) medical personnel means those persons assigned, by a Party to the conflict, exclusively to the medical purposes enumerated under sub-paragraph (e) or to the administration of medical units or to the operation or administration of medical transports. Such assignments may be either permanent or temporary. The term includes: (i) medical personnel of a Party to the conflict, whether military or civilian, including those described in the First and Second Conventions, and those assigned to civil defence organizations; (ii) medical personnel of national Red Cross (Red Crescent, Red Lion and Sun) Societies and other national voluntary aid societies duly recognized and authorized by a Party to the conflict; (iii) medical personnel of medical units or medical transports described in Article 9, paragraph 2;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (i)
(i) medical personnel of a Party to the conflict, whether military or civilian, including those described in the First and Second Conventions, and those assigned to civil defence organizations;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (ii)
(ii) medical personnel of national Red Cross (Red Crescent, Red Lion and Sun) Societies and other national voluntary aid societies duly recognized and authorized by a Party to the conflict;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (iii)
(iii) medical personnel of medical units or medical transports described in Article 9, paragraph 2;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (d)
(d) religious personnel means military or civilian persons, such as chaplains, who are exclusively engaged in the work of their ministry and attached: (i) to the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; (ii) to medical units or medical transports of a Party to the conflict; (iii) to medical units or medical transports described in Article 9, paragraph 2; or (iv) to civil defence organizations of a Party to the conflict. The attachment of religious personnel may be either permanent or temporary, and the relevant provisions mentioned under subparagraph (k) apply to them;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (i)
(i) to the armed forces of a Party to the conflict;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (ii)
(ii) to medical units or medical transports of a Party to the conflict;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (iii)
(iii) to medical units or medical transports described in Article 9, paragraph 2; or
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (iv)
(iv) to civil defence organizations of a Party to the conflict.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
The attachment of religious personnel may be either permanent or temporary, and the relevant provisions mentioned under subparagraph (k) apply to them;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (e)
(e) medical units means establishments and other units, whether military or civilian, organized for medical purposes, namely the search for, collection, transportation, diagnosis or treatment — including first-aid treatment — of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, or for the prevention of disease. The term includes, for example, hospitals and other similar units, blood transfusion centres, preventive medicine centres and institutes, medical depots and the medical and pharmaceutical stores of such units. Medical units may be fixed or mobile, permanent or temporary;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (f)
(f) medical transportation means the conveyance by land, water or air of the wounded, sick, shipwrecked, medical personnel, religious personnel, medical equipment or medical supplies protected by the Conventions and by this Protocol;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (g)
(g) medical transports means any means of transportation, whether military or civilian, permanent or temporary, assigned exclusively to medical transportation and under the control of a competent authority of a Party to the conflict;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (h)
(h) medical vehicles means any medical transports by land;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (i)
(i) medical ships and craft means any medical transports by water;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (j)
(j) medical aircraft means any medical transports by air;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (k)
(k) permanent medical personnel , permanent medical units and permanent medical transports mean those assigned exclusively to medical purposes for an indeterminate period. Temporary medical personnel , temporary medical units and temporary medical transports mean those devoted exclusively to medical purposes for limited periods during the whole of such periods. Unless otherwise specified, the terms “medical personnel”, “medical units” and “medical transports” cover both permanent and temporary categories;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (l)
(l) distinctive emblem means the distinctive emblem of the red cross, red crescent or red lion and sun on a white ground when used for the protection of medical units and transports, or medical and religious personnel, equipment or supplies;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (m)
(m) distinctive signal means any signal or message specified for the identification exclusively of medical units or transports in Chapter III of Annex I to this Protocol.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 This Part, the provisions of which are intended to ameliorate the condition of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, shall apply to all those affected by a situation referred to in Article 1, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, sex, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, national or social origin, wealth, birth or other status, or on any other similar criteria.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 The relevant provisions of Articles 27 and 32 of the First Convention shall apply to permanent medical units and transports (other than hospital ships, to which Article 25 of the Second Convention applies) and their personnel made available to a Party to the conflict for humanitarian purposes: (a) by a neutral or other State which is not a Party to that conflict; (b) by a recognized and authorized aid society of such a State; (c) by an impartial international humanitarian organization.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (a)
(a) by a neutral or other State which is not a Party to that conflict;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (b)
(b) by a recognized and authorized aid society of such a State;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (c)
(c) by an impartial international humanitarian organization.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 All the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, to whichever Party they belong, shall be respected and protected.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 In all circumstances they shall be treated humanely and shall receive, to the fullest extent practicable and with the least possible delay, the medical care and attention required by their condition. There shall be no distinction among them founded on any grounds other than medical ones.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 The physical or mental health and integrity of persons who are in the power of the adverse Party or who are interned, detained or otherwise deprived of liberty as a result of a situation referred to in Article 1 shall not be endangered by any unjustified act or omission. Accordingly, it is prohibited to subject the persons described in this Article to any medical procedure which is not indicated by the state of health of the person concerned and which is not consistent with generally accepted medical standards which would be applied under similar medical circumstances to persons who are nationals of the Party conducting the procedure and who are in no way deprived of liberty.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 It is, in particular, prohibited to carry out on such persons, even with their consent: (a) physical mutilations; (b) medical or scientific experiments; (c) removal of tissue or organs for transplantation. except where these acts are justified in conformity with the conditions provided for in paragraph 1.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (c)
(c) removal of tissue or organs for transplantation. except where these acts are justified in conformity with the conditions provided for in paragraph 1.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
except where these acts are justified in conformity with the conditions provided for in paragraph 1.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 Exceptions to the prohibition in paragraph 2(c) may be made only in the case of donations of blood for transfusion or of skin for grafting, provided that they are given voluntarily and without any coercion or inducement, and then only for therapeutic purposes, under conditions consistent with generally accepted medical standards and controls designed for the benefit of both the donor and the recipient.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 4
4 Any wilful act or omission which seriously endangers the physical or mental health or integrity of any person who is in the power of a Party other than the one on which he depends and which either violates any of the prohibitions in paragraphs 1 and 2 or fails to comply with the requirements of paragraph 3 shall be a grave breach of this Protocol.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 5
5 The persons described in paragraph 1 have the right to refuse any surgical operation. In case of refusal, medical personnel shall endeavour to obtain a written statement to that effect, signed or acknowledged by the patient.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 6
6 Each Party to the conflict shall keep a medical record for every donation of blood for transfusion or skin for grafting by persons referred to in paragraph 1, if that donation is made under the responsibility of that Party. In addition, each Party to the conflict shall endeavour to keep a record of all medical procedures undertaken with respect to any person who is interned, detained or otherwise deprived of liberty as a result of a situation referred to in Article 1. These records shall be available at all times for inspection by the Protecting Power.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 Medical units shall be respected and protected at all times and shall not be the object of attack.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 Paragraph 1 shall apply to civilian medical units, provided that they: (a) belong to one of the Parties to the conflict; (b) are recognized and authorized by the competent authority of one of the Parties to the conflict; or (c) are authorized in conformity with Article 9, paragraph 2, of this Protocol or Article 27 of the First Convention.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (a)
(a) belong to one of the Parties to the conflict;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (b)
(b) are recognized and authorized by the competent authority of one of the Parties to the conflict; or
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (c)
(c) are authorized in conformity with Article 9, paragraph 2, of this Protocol or Article 27 of the First Convention.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 The Parties to the conflict are invited to notify each other of the location of their fixed medical units. The absence of such notification shall not exempt any of the Parties from the obligation to comply with the provisions of paragraph 1.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 4
4 Under no circumstances shall medical units be used in an attempt to shield military objectives from attack. Whenever possible, the Parties to the conflict shall ensure that medical units are so sited that attacks against military objectives do not imperil their safety.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 The protection to which civilian medical units are entitled shall not cease unless they are used to commit, outside their humanitarian function, acts harmful to the enemy. Protection may, however, cease only after a warning has been given setting, whenever appropriate, a reasonable time-limit, and after such warning has remained unheeded.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 The following shall not be considered as acts harmful to the enemy: (a) that the personnel of the unit are equipped with light individual weapons for their own defence or for that of the wounded and sick in their charge; (b) that the unit is guarded by a picket or by sentries or by an escort; (c) that small arms and ammunition taken from the wounded and sick, and not yet handed to the proper service, are found in the units; (d) that members of the armed forces or other combatants are in the unit for medical reasons.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (a)
(a) that the personnel of the unit are equipped with light individual weapons for their own defence or for that of the wounded and sick in their charge;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (b)
(b) that the unit is guarded by a picket or by sentries or by an escort;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (c)
(c) that small arms and ammunition taken from the wounded and sick, and not yet handed to the proper service, are found in the units;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (d)
(d) that members of the armed forces or other combatants are in the unit for medical reasons.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 The Occupying Power has the duty to ensure that the medical needs of the civilian population in occupied territory continue to be satisfied.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 The Occupying Power shall not, therefore, requisition civilian medical units, their equipment, their matériel or the services of their personnel, so long as these resources are necessary for the provision of adequate medical services for the civilian population and for the continuing medical care of any wounded and sick already under treatment.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 Provided that the general rule in paragraph 2 continues to be observed, the Occupying Power may requisition the said resources, subject to the following particular conditions: (a) that the resources are necessary for the adequate and immediate medical treatment of the wounded and sick members of the armed forces of the Occupying Power or of prisoners of war; (b) that the requisition continues only while such necessity exists; and (c) that immediate arrangements are made to ensure that the medical needs of the civilian population, as well as those of any wounded and sick under treatment who are affected by the requisition, continue to be satisfied.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (a)
(a) that the resources are necessary for the adequate and immediate medical treatment of the wounded and sick members of the armed forces of the Occupying Power or of prisoners of war;
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (b)
(b) that the requisition continues only while such necessity exists; and
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (c)
(c) that immediate arrangements are made to ensure that the medical needs of the civilian population, as well as those of any wounded and sick under treatment who are affected by the requisition, continue to be satisfied.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 Civilian medical personnel shall be respected and protected.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 If needed, all available help shall be afforded to civilian medical personnel in an area where civilian medical services are disrupted by reason of combat activity.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 The Occupying Power shall afford civilian medical personnel in occupied territories every assistance to enable them to perform, to the best of their ability, their humanitarian functions. The Occupying Power may not require that, in the performance of those functions, such personnel shall give priority to the treatment of any person except on medical grounds. They shall not be compelled to carry out tasks which are not compatible with their humanitarian mission.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 4
4 Civilian medical personnel shall have access to any place where their services are essential, subject to such supervisory and safety measures as the relevant Party to the conflict may deem necessary.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 5
5 Civilian religious personnel shall be respected and protected. The provisions of the Conventions and of this Protocol concerning the protection and identification of medical personnel shall apply equally to such persons.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 Under no circumstances shall any person be punished for carrying out medical activities compatible with medical ethics, regardless of the person benefiting therefrom.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 Persons engaged in medical activities shall not be compelled to perform acts or to carry out work contrary to the rules of medical ethics or to other medical rules designed for the benefit of the wounded and sick or to the provisions of the Conventions or of this Protocol, or to refrain from performing acts or from carrying out work required by those rules and provisions.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 No person engaged in medical activities shall be compelled to give to anyone belonging either to an adverse Party, or to his own Party except as required by the law of the latter Party, any information concerning the wounded and sick who are, or who have been, under his care, if such information would, in his opinion, prove harmful to the patients concerned or to their families. Regulations for the compulsory notification of communicable diseases shall, however, be respected.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 The civilian population shall respect the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, even if they belong to the adverse Party, and shall commit no act of violence against them. The civilian population and aid societies, such as national Red Cross (Red Crescent, Red Lion and Sun) Societies, shall be permitted, even on their own initiative, to collect and care for the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, even in invaded or occupied areas. No one shall be harmed, prosecuted, convicted or punished for such humanitarian acts.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 The Parties to the conflict may appeal to the civilian population and the aid societies referred to in paragraph 1 to collect and care for the wounded, sick and shipwrecked, and to search for the dead and report their location; they shall grant both protection and the necessary facilities to those who respond to this appeal. If the adverse Party gains or regains control of the area, that Party also shall afford the same protection and facilities for so long as they are needed.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 Each Party to the conflict shall endeavour to ensure that medical and religious personnel and medical units and transports are identifiable.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 Each Party to the conflict shall also endeavour to adopt and to implement methods and procedures which will make it possible to recognize medical units and transports which use the distinctive emblem and distinctive signals.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 In occupied territory and in areas where fighting is taking place or is likely to take place, civilian medical personnel and civilian religious personnel should be recognizable by the distinctive emblem and an identity card certifying their status.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 4
4 With the consent of the competent authority, medical units and transports shall be marked by the distinctive emblem. The ships and craft referred to in Article 22 of this Protocol shall be marked in accordance with the provisions of the Second Convention.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 5
5 In addition to the distinctive emblem, a Party to the conflict may, as provided in Chapter III of Annex I to this Protocol, authorize the use of distinctive signals to identify medical units and transports. Exceptionally, in the special cases covered in that Chapter, medical transports may use distinctive signals without displaying the distinctive emblem.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 6
6 The application of the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 5 of this Article is governed by Chapters I to III of Annex I to this Protocol. Signals designated in Chapter III of the Annex for the exclusive use of medical units and transports shall not, except as provided therein, be used for any purpose other than to identify the medical units and transports specified in that Chapter.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 7
7 This Article does not authorize any wider use of the distinctive emblem in peacetime than is prescribed in Article 44 of the First Convention.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 8
8 The provisions of the Conventions and of this Protocol relating to supervision of the use of the distinctive emblem and to the prevention and repression of any misuse thereof shall be applicable to distinctive signals.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
Neutral and other States not Parties to the conflict shall apply the relevant provisions of this Protocol to persons protected by this Part who may be received or interned within their territory, and to any dead of the Parties to that conflict whom they may find.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
Reprisals against the persons and objects protected by this Part are prohibited.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
Medical vehicles shall be respected and protected in the same way as mobile medical units under the Conventions and this Protocol.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 1
1 The provisions of the Conventions relating to: (a) vessels described in Articles 22, 24, 25 and 27 of the Second Convention, (b) their lifeboats and small craft, (c) their personnel and crews, and (d) the wounded, sick and shipwrecked on board, shall also apply where these vessels carry civilian wounded, sick and shipwrecked who do not belong to any of the categories mentioned in Article 13 of the Second Convention. Such civilians shall not, however, be subject to surrender to any Party which is not their own, or to capture at sea. If they find themselves in the power of a Party to the conflict other than their own they shall be covered by the Fourth Convention and by this Protocol.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (a)
(a) vessels described in Articles 22, 24, 25 and 27 of the Second Convention,
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (d)
(d) the wounded, sick and shipwrecked on board, shall also apply where these vessels carry civilian wounded, sick and shipwrecked who do not belong to any of the categories mentioned in Article 13 of the Second Convention. Such civilians shall not, however, be subject to surrender to any Party which is not their own, or to capture at sea. If they find themselves in the power of a Party to the conflict other than their own they shall be covered by the Fourth Convention and by this Protocol.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
shall also apply where these vessels carry civilian wounded, sick and shipwrecked who do not belong to any of the categories mentioned in Article 13 of the Second Convention. Such civilians shall not, however, be subject to surrender to any Party which is not their own, or to capture at sea. If they find themselves in the power of a Party to the conflict other than their own they shall be covered by the Fourth Convention and by this Protocol.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 2
2 The protection provided by the Conventions to vessels described in Article 25 of the Second Convention shall extend to hospital ships made available for humanitarian purposes to a Party to the conflict: (a) by a neutral or other State which is not a Party to that conflict; or (b) by an impartial international humanitarian organization, provided that, in either case, the requirements set out in that Article are complied with.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (a)
(a) by a neutral or other State which is not a Party to that conflict; or
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 (b)
(b) by an impartial international humanitarian organization, provided that, in either case, the requirements set out in that Article are complied with.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3
provided that, in either case, the requirements set out in that Article are complied with.
Geneva Conventions Act — G-3 3
3 Small craft described in Article 27 of the Second Convention shall be protected even if the notification envisaged by that Article has not been made. The Parties to the conflict are, nevertheless, invited to inform each other of any details of such craft which will facilitate their identification and recognition.