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Geneva Convention Implementing (Amendment) Act, 1963

ACT XXI OF 1963
GENEVA CONVENTION IMPLEMENTING (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1963
An Act further to amend the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936
[Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, 16th December 1963]

The following Acts of the National Assembly received the assent of the Acting President on the 14th December 1963, and are hereby published for general information :--

Whereas it is expedient, further to amend the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936 (XIV of 1936), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

It is hereby enacted as follows :--

1. Short title and commencement.--(1) This Act may be called the Geneva Convention Implementing (Amendment) Act, 1963.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Substitution of section 2, Act (XIV of 1936).--In the Geneva Convention Implementing Act, 1936, for section 2 the following shall be substituted, namely :--

    "2. Prohibition of use of emblems "Red Cross", "Red Crescent", etc.--No person other than a person entitled thereto under the Geneva Convention shall use, or in any manner Exhibit, whether for the purpose of trade or business or for any other purpose or object whatsoever, the emblem or the designation "Red Cross", "Red Crescent", "Red Lion and Sun" or "Sun" or any sign of designation constituting au imitation thereof, irrespective of the date of the adoption of any such emblems or designation by such person :

    Provided that the emblem "Red Cross" may, with the permission in writing of the Society, be used in time of peace to identify vehicles used as ambulances or to mark the positioo of aid stations set up exclusively for giving free medical treatment to the wounded or sick.

    Explanation.--In this section,--

    (i) "Geneva Convention" means the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick io Armed Forces in the Field, dated the 12th day of August 1949 ; and

    (ii) "the Society" means the Pakistan Red Cross Society constituted under the Pakistan Red Cross Society Act, 1920 (XV of 1920)."

[Source: International Committee of the Red Cross.]

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