# Geneva Conventions Act 1957, Introduction: Introductory text

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

An Act to enable effect to be given to certain international conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and for purposes connected therewith.
[31st July 1957]
Whereas, with a view to the ratification by Her Majesty of the conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act, it is expedient to make certain amendments in the law:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/geneva-conventions-act-1957/introduction
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