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This Order consolidates and revokes the Orders which extended the Geneva Conventions Act 1957, and amendments made to that Act by the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995 and the International Criminal Court Act 2001, to the Isle of Man.

The Order also extends the amendments to the 1957 Act made by section 1 of and the Schedule to the Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009. This will allow 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, to be extended to the Isle of Man.