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Red Cross Act, 1938

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Number 32 of 1938.

RED CROSS ACT, 1938.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Establishment of Red Cross Society.

2.

Grants and loans to the Society.

3.

Power to authorise voluntary aid societies to render assistance to the Army Medical Service.

4.

Restriction on use of Red Cross, etc.

5.

Restriction on use of arms of the Swiss Confederation.

6.

Penalties for offences and disposition of forfeited goods.

7.

Offences by bodies corporate.

8.

Repeal of Geneva Convention Act, 1911.

9.

Short title.

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Number 32 of 1938.

RED CROSS ACT, 1938.

AN ACT TO ENABLE, SO FAR AS IRELAND IS CONCERNED, EFFECT TO BE GIVEN TO AND ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE AMELIORATION OF THE CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED AND SICK IN ARMIES IN THE FIELD AND AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR, BOTH OF WHICH WERE SIGNED AT GENEVA ON THE 27TH DAY OF JULY, 1929, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND INCORPORATION IN IRELAND OF A RED CROSS SOCIETY AND FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS. [14th December, 1938.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—