Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093:schedule:5:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 5 (pt 11/59)
Character Range: 388500–391245

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.
 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.
 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.
 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.

Article 19—Neutral and other States not Parties to the conflict
 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.

Article 20—Prohibition of reprisals
 Reprisals against the persons and objects protected by this Part are prohibited.
SECTION II
MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION

Article 21—Medical vehicles
 Medical vehicles shall be respected and protected in the same way as mobile medical units under the Conventions and this Protocol.

Article 22—Hospital ships and coastal rescue craft
 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.
 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