Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093:schedule:4:p47
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 4 (pt 47/49)
Character Range: 355902–358723

to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts. It may also, if it prefers, and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, hand such persons over for trial to another High Contracting Party concerned, provided such High Contracting Party has made out a prima facie case.
 Each High Contracting Party shall take measures necessary for the suppression of all acts contrary to the provisions of the present Convention other than the grave breaches defined in the following Article.
 In all circumstances, the accused persons shall benefit by safeguards of proper trial and defence, which shall not be less favourable than those provided by Article 105 and those following of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949.
Article 147
 Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.
Article 148
 No High Contracting Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting Party of any liability incurred by itself or by another High Contracting Party in respect of breaches referred to in the preceding Article.
Article 149
 At the request of a Party to the conflict, an enquiry shall be instituted, in a manner to be decided between the interested Parties, concerning any alleged violation of the Convention.
 If agreement has not been reached concerning the procedure for the enquiry, the Parties should agree on the choice of an umpire who will decide upon the procedure to be followed.
 Once the violation has been established, the Parties to the conflict shall put an end to it and shall repress it with the least possible delay.
Section ii.—final provisions
Article 150
 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 151
 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