Geneva Conventions Act, 1962
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Minor breaches of Scheduled Conventions. |
4.—(1) Any person, whatever his nationality, who, in the State, commits, or aids, or abets or procures the commission in the State by any other person of, any minor breach of any of the Scheduled Conventions shall be guilty of an offence. | |
(2) Any citizen of Ireland who, outside the State, commits, or aids, or abets or procures the commission outside the State by any other person of, any minor breach of any of the Scheduled Conventions shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(3) Any person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable | ||
(a) on summary conviction thereof to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or, at the discretion of the court, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to both such imprisonment and such fine; or | ||
(b) on conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding three hundred pounds, or, at the discretion of the court, to both such imprisonment and such fine. | ||
(4) In this section “minor breach” means contravention of a provision of any of the Scheduled Conventions which is not any such grave breach of that Convention as is mentioned in the relevant Article thereof referred to in section 3 of this Act. |