Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093:schedule:5:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 5 (pt 8/59)
Character Range: 380830–383580

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.

Article 12—Protection of medical units
 1. Medical units shall be respected and protected at all times and shall not be the object of attack.
 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.
 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.
 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.

Article 13—Discontinuance of protection of civilian medical units
 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.
 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.

Article 14—Limitations on requisition of civilian medical units
 1. The Occupying Power has the duty to ensure that the medical needs of the civilian population in occupied territory continue to be satisfied.
 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.
 3. Provided that the general rule in paragraph 2 continues to be