Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093:schedule:1:p18
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 18/20)
Character Range: 65819–68537

of the Convention, the use by private individuals, societies or firms, of the arms of the Swiss Confederation, or of marks constituting an imitation thereof, whether as trade‑marks or commercial marks, or as parts of such marks, or for a purpose contrary to commercial honesty, or in circumstances capable of wounding Swiss national sentiment, shall be prohibited at all times.
 Nevertheless, such High Contracting Parties as were not party to the Geneva Convention of July 27, 1929, may grant to prior users of the emblems, designations, signs or marks designated in the first paragraph, a time limit not to exceed three years from the coming into force of the present Convention to discontinue such use, provided that the said use shall not be such as would appear, in time of war, to confer the protection of the Convention.
 The prohibition laid down in the first paragraph of the present Article shall also apply, without effect on any rights acquired through prior use, to the emblems and marks mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 38.
Article 54
 The High Contracting Parties shall, if their legislation is not already adequate, take measures necessary for the prevention and repression, at all times, of the abuses referred to under Article 53.
FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 55
 The present Convention is established in English and in French. Both texts are equally authentic.
 The Swiss Federal Council shall arrange for official translations of the Convention to be made in the Russian and Spanish languages.
Article 56
 The present Convention, which bears the date of this day, is open to signature until February 12, 1950, in the name of the Powers represented at the Conference which opened at Geneva on April 21, 1949; furthermore, by Powers not represented at that Conference, but which are parties to the Geneva Conventions of 1864, 1906 or 1929 for the Relief of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field.
Article 57
 The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible and the ratifications shall be deposited at Berne.
 A record shall be drawn up of the deposit of each instrument of ratification and certified copies of this record shall be transmitted by the Swiss Federal Council to all the Powers in whose name the Convention has been signed, or whose accession has been notified.
Article 58
 The present Convention shall come into force six months after not less than two instruments of ratification have been deposited.
 Thereafter, it shall come into force for each High Contracting Party six months after the deposit of the instrument of ratification.
Article 59
 The present Convention replaces the Conventions of August 22, 1864, July 6, 1906, and July 27, 1929, in relations