Geneva Convention Act 1937
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1937 c. 15 |
| Year | 1937 |
Geneva Convention Act, 1937
(1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 15.
An Act to enable effect to be given to Article twenty-eight of the International Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armies in the field done at Geneva on the twenty-seventh day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and for purposes connected therewith.
[19th March 1937]
Whereas His Majesty has ratified an International Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armies in the field which was done at Geneva on the twenty-seventh day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine:
And whereas, in order to give effect to Article twenty-eight of the said Convention, and for purposes connected therewith, it is expedient to make such amendments in the law as are contained in this Act:
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Prohibition of use of certain designs and words.
(1) It shall not be lawful for any person, without the authority of the Board of Trade, to use for of the purposes of his trade or business, or for any other purpose whatsoever—
(a ) any design consisting of a white or silver cross on a red ground, none of the limbs of which extends to the margin of the ground, being the cross comprised in the Arms of the Swiss Confederation; or
(b ) any design being a colourable imitation of the design mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph; or
(c ) any design being a colourable imitation of the heraldic emblem of the red cross on a white ground mentioned in subsection (1) of section one of the Geneva Convention Act, 1911 , or any words so nearly resembling the words ‘Red Cross’ or ‘Geneva Cross’ as to be capable of being understood as referring to the said emblem.
(2) If any person contravenes the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, he shall, subject as hereafter provided, be guilty of an offence under this Act and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds and to forfeit any goods upon or in connection with which the design or words was or were used.
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to a trade mark registered before the twenty-third day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and consisting of or containing any such...
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