# The Geneva Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 2010, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
The purpose of this Order is threefold; first to extend section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 so that the Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem, of 8 December 2005, which prescribes a new humanitarian symbol to be known as the Red Crystal, can be extended to the Bailiwick of Guernsey; second to extend to the Bailiwick of Guernsey the amendments to the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 made by sections 70 and 83 of, and Schedule 10 (in respect of sections 1(1) and 7(1) of the Geneva Conventions Act 1957) to, the International Criminal Court Act 2001; and third to amend the Schedules to the Geneva Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 1966 and the Geneva Conventions Act (Guernsey) Order 1999.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2965/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/geneva-conventions-act-guernsey-order-2010/note
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