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Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Act, 2012 (Act No. 8 of 2012)

Chapter 5 : Use and Protection of Emblems

18. International Committee of the Red Cross and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

 

1) The International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies may make use of the emblems contemplated in section 14(1)(a) and (b) at any time and for all their activities.

 

2)
a) The International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and their duly authorised personnel, may make use of the red crystal to facilitate their work if there is sufficient reason for such use.
b) For the purposes of paragraph (a) the red crystal means the emblem in red on, and completely surrounded by, a white ground, that is to say, a red frame in the shape of a square on edge (whether or not incorporating within its centre another emblem or sign, or combination thereof in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 1 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III), done at Geneva on 8 December 2005), or the designation "Red Crystal", or the designation "third Protocol emblem".

 

 


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