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Legislation
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/1997/30/
13 Jul 1998 -
Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Bill 1997
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Legislation
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/1961/38/
21 Apr 1962 -
Geneva Conventions Bill, 1961
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-03-12/6/
12 Mar 1998 -
Bill entitled an Act to enable effect to be given to the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions...of 1949 done at Geneva on 10 June 1977 and for that purpose to amend the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962..., section 6(1) of the Red Cross Act, 1938, and the Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Act, 1956, and to
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2006-10-12/7/
12 Oct 2006 -
correct a typographical error in Schedule 3 to the Bill relating to a reference to section 3 of the Geneva...Conventions Act 1962, as amended by section 3 of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1998.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-10-18/21/
18 Oct 2006 -
correct a typographical error which occurred in Schedule 3 to the Bill in reference to section 3 of the Geneva...Convention of 1962, as amended by section 3 of the Geneva Convention Act 1988.
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2001-11-29/2/
29 Nov 2001 -
(European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987....The 1957 convention on extradition throughout the Council of Europe area is the basis of the 1965 Act...These conventions have been given effect in Ireland by the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....However, the 1962 Act does not make specific provision about reliance on the political offence defence...nor for extradition, although section 15 of the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act, 1998 refers to extradition
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-16/294/
16 May 2006 -
Against Torture) Act 2000 as a Committee Stage amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill 2004....into line with the definition contained in Article 1 of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other...I presume that the Deputy is referring in his question to the Geneva Conventions Act 1962....I have received no approaches to amend the Geneva Conventions Act 1962 or the Geneva Conventions (Amendment...) Act 1998.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1995-12-06/33/
6 Dec 1995 -
Spring) The two additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions, of June 1997 were signed by Ireland...Protocol II applies the Geneva Conventions to "non-international armed conflicts"....As the Deputy is aware, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 were implemented in Ireland by three Acts of the...Oireachtas: the Red Cross Act, 1954; the Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Act, 1956; and the Geneva...Conventions Act, 1962.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1981-07-23/61/
23 Jul 1981 -
Kelly) Four conventions were adopted in Geneva on 12 August 1949 relating to the treatment of the sick...Effect is given to them in Irish law by the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....They were ratified on behalf of Ireland on 13 September 1962 and entered into force for Ireland on 27...The two protocols additional to these conventions relating to the protection of victims of international
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2006-09-28/5/
28 Sep 2006 -
Act 1962, as amended, and as a war crime under Article 8.2 of the Rome Statute....Convention of 1949 and the first additional protocol of 1977, as implemented by the Geneva Conventions...Acts of 1962 and 1998....As many of the grave breaches under the Geneva Conventions are comparable with ICC offences, universal...Conventions Acts of 1962 and 1998.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-05-09/226/
9 May 2006 -
satisfied that adequate resources and strategies are available to investigate complaints made under the Geneva...Conventions Act 1962 and the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention against Torture) Act 2000.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Foreign Affairs And Trade, And Defence
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/2017-11-30/2/
30 Nov 2017 -
legislation as the transfer of the civilian population on to occupied territory is criminalised under the Geneva...Conventions Act 1962, the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1998 and the International Criminal Court...Act 2006....with EU law, it also enables us to enact our own Irish legislation in accordance with those particular Acts
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2006-03-09/2/
9 Mar 2006 -
lines 1 and 2 and substitute the following: "paragraph ( g ) (inserted by section 7 of the Genocide Act...1973): ‘( g ) an offence under section 3, as amended, of the Geneva Conventions Act 1962, an offence...of genocide under section 2 of the Genocide Act 1973 or an offence under section 7 or 8 of the International...Criminal Court Act 2005 .’.”.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1971-08-05/42/
5 Aug 1971 -
charged with an indictable offence, other than murder, treason, piracy or an offence referred to in the Geneva...Conventions Act, 1962, pleads guilty in the district court and is sent forward for sentence to the circuit
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs/1998-05-13/2/
13 May 1998 -
Section 4 of the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962, deals with the punishment of minor breaches of the four...Geneva Conventions....Section 4 of the Bill seeks to amend section 4 of the Act....Article 86 (1) of Protocol I also deals with the suppression of all other breaches of the four Conventions...or Protocol I arising out of a failure to act when under a duty to do so.
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Debate: Select Committee On Foreign Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_foreign_affairs/1998-05-13/2/
13 May 1998 -
Section 3 of the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962, deals with the punishment of grave breaches of the four...Geneva Conventions....Section 3 of the Bill seeks to amend section 3 of the Act....The Conventions in Protocol I require that grave breaches be repressed....to act when under a duty to do so.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2010-06-02/12/
2 Jun 2010 -
The Act of 1938 permits payment to the society of funds by way of grant....The society has certain rights arising from the Geneva Convention....Under the convention, the Government is required to discharge certain obligations to the society including...The Geneva Convention is given effect in Irish law through the Red Cross Act 1954, the Prisoners of War...and Enemy Aliens Act 1956 and the Geneva Conventions Act 1962, as amended in 1998.
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2006-05-16/356/#pq_356
Tue, 16 May 2006 -
Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received approaches to change, amend or otherwise alter the Geneva...Conventions Act 1967, the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention on Torture) Act 2000, the International
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Debate: Select Committee On Justice, Equality, Defence And Women’S Rights
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/select_committee_on_justice_equality_defence_and_womens_rights/2006-03-09/2/
9 Mar 2006 -
following paragraph for paragraph ( c ): ‘( c ) if convicted of an offence under section 3 of the Geneva...Conventions Act 1962, an offence of genocide under section 2 of the Genocide Act 1973 or an offence...These references are necessary as the terrorist offences Act amended enactments such as the Defence Act...The Bill also provides that offences under the Geneva Conventions Act 1962 and this Bill cannot be regarded...III of the 1965 Act was repealed by the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1980-04-29/17/
29 Apr 1980 -
In addition, the Arbitration Act, 1954, which gave effect to the 1923 Geneva Protocol on Arbitration...The New York Convention was designed to replace the 1923 Geneva Protocol and the 1927 Geneva Convention...Convention as set out in Article 56 of the 1954 Act....This power to order security to be given has no counterpart in the Geneva Convention....An effort was made in 1962 to adapt the rules of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague to permit
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2006-05-09/306/#pq_306
Tue, 9 May 2006 -
for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if An Garda Síochána has carried out investigations under the Geneva...Conventions Act 1967, the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention on Torture) Act 2000 or similar
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2006-05-09/305/#pq_305
Tue, 9 May 2006 -
available to An Garda Síochána for the investigation and pursuit of those responsible for violations of the Geneva...Conventions Act 1967 or the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention on Torture) Act 2000; if there
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1998-06-23/11/
23 Jun 1998 -
Act, 1956, and the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....of 1949 done at Geneva on 8 June 1977 and for that purpose to amend the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962...Section 1 defines the Principal Act as the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962...., the Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Act, 1956, and the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....Ireland's 1962 Geneva Conventions Act differs in a positive way from other common law legislation in
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-03-12/7/
12 Mar 1998 -
in 1954 when we enacted the Red Cross Act, and similarly in 1956 and 1962 with the enactment of the...Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Act, and the Geneva Conventions Act....Act, 1962 — the Principal Act — to include "grave breaches" of Additional Protocol 1....Section 1 of the Bill defines the Principal Act as the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....Section 2 of the Bill replaces section 2 of the Principal Act of 1962 with a completely new section in
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1999-12-07/5/
7 Dec 1999 -
Generally speaking, this was contained in the Geneva Conventions of 1949....Ireland is a party to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949....Effect was given to them in Irish law when we enacted the Red Cross Act, 1954, the Prisoners of War and...Enemy Aliens Act, 1956 and the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....1977 and which are additional to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1980-05-28/11/
28 May 1980 -
Arbitration Clauses and the 1927 Geneva Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards....Both the Geneva Protocol and Convention were given effect to in this country by the Arbitration Act,...Convention which are set out in our 1954 Act, the New York Convention makes a significant change in...In an effort to fill this gap the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague adapted its rules in 1962..., the Washington Convention, or the Geneva Protocol applies.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1973-11-14/12/
14 Nov 1973 -
most sophisticated century in the history of mankind, we have had within living memory some horrible acts...of genocide and we have acts taking place at present in some parts of the world which appear to fall...As Senator Ryan pointed out, the definition is taken from the Convention and is a matter over which we...This provision is similar to that in section 3 (3) of the Geneva Convention Act, 1962, as regards prosecutions...for grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2008-11-13/19/
13 Nov 2008 -
supporting An Garda Síochána in the investigation and enforcement of the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention...Against Torture) Act 2000 and the Geneva Conventions Acts 1962-1998...., in the context of the State's obligations under the Chicago Convention....The Deputy will appreciate that these Acts and the convention are not matters for which my Department...There has been regular communication between me and my Department, acting on my behalf, and the Garda
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-10-23/35/
23 Oct 2007 -
War crimes constituting grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their First Additional Protocol...of 1977 may be prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions Acts 1962 and 1998....Torture, pursuant to the United Nations Convention Against Torture of 1984, may be prosecuted under the...Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Act 2000....It will be of interest to note, however, that the International Convention for the Protection of all
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1993-11-04/8/
4 Nov 1993 -
Ireland became a party to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 relating to the victims of international...non-international armed conflicts after the enactment of the necessary legislation — the Red Cross Act..., 1954, the Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Act, 1956, and the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....The Protocol increases the number of situations in which already defined acts would become grave breaches...pay compensation on the basis that it is responsible for all acts committed by persons forming part of
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2007-10-23/33/#pq_33
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 -
ensure that their country cannot be used as a safe haven to evade justice by those perpetrating such acts
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Debate: Joint Committee On Foreign Affairs
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_foreign_affairs/2007-12-19/3/
19 Dec 2007 -
Government has said it will prioritise effective enforcement of the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention...against Torture) Act 2000 and the Geneva Conventions Acts 1962 and 1998....international support to address deficiencies in aspects of the regulation of civil aviation under the Chicago Convention
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1984-06-12/19/
12 Jun 1984 -
—Section 29 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1967, is amended by the addition of the following subparagraph...g) to subsection (1) of the said section— ‘(g) an offence under section 15, of the Misuse of Drugs Act..., 1977, and an offence of conspiring or attempting to commit any such offence under the said Act'."....is referred to in section 3 (1) (i) of the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962, (e) an offence under section...9 of the Official Secrets Act, 1963, or an offence under Part II of that Act committed in a manner prejudicial
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2000-04-19/4/
19 Apr 2000 -
The convention entered into force on 15 January 1999....Forces do not come within the remit of this con vention, they do have the protection afforded by the Geneva...Conventions of 1949....Effect was given to the Geneva Conventions in Irish law by the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....The Convention requires States Parties to take jurisdiction over Convention offences.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1964-11-05/4/
5 Nov 1964 -
The Convention, Agreements and Protocol were signed by the Taoiseach on 18th March....seas of the State remains at three miles, in accordance with section 3 of the Maritime Jurisdiction Act...the great measure of international approval for the Canadian and United States proposals at the First Geneva...Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1958 and for the joint United States/Canadian proposals at the Second Geneva...fish is recognised to States which have habitually fished there between January, 1953, and December, 1962
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1973-12-11/8/
11 Dec 1973 -
brought about by the Government one can surely not conceive the possibility of their doing so with this Act...would suggest to the House and Senator Ryan that this situation is analagous to our position under the Geneva...Conventions Act, 1962, and section 3, subsection (3) of that Act provides that prosecutions for the...comparable offences of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, which consist of ill-treatment of persons...protected by these Conventions and by the Red Cross Conventions, are to be prosecuted by the Attorney
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-12-12/13/
12 Dec 2001 -
In domestic law the Extradition (European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism) Act, 1987, gave...It amends section 27 of the 1965 Extradition Act and implements Article 4 of the 1995 convention....) Act, 1987, to add four 1949 Geneva conventions to the list in section 3( a ) of that Act so that the...These conventions have been given effect in Ireland by the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....However, the 1962 Act does not make specific provision about reliance on the political offence exemption
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2014-01-22/39/#pq_39
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 -
treaties, the laws giving effect to the international treaties are not being enforced; and given that the Geneva...Conventions Act 1962, as amended in 1998, provides that any minor breach of the 1949 Geneva Convention...is a punishable offence, if gardaí should be ensuring there are no breaches of the convention taking
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2008-05-22/236/#pq_236
Thu, 22 May 2008 -
programme for Government to prioritise effective enforcement of the Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention...Against Torture) Act 2006 and the Geneva Conventions Acts 1962 to 1998 by making resources available
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1998-03-12/7/
12 Mar 1998 -
I am disappointed to note that it has taken 21 years for the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Bill to be...I note that the purpose of the four Geneva Red Cross conventions is to afford protection to victims of...Two additional protocols to extend the scope of the conventions were concluded at Geneva on 10 June 1977...The four Geneva conventions of 1949 were almost universally accepted....The Geneva Conventions Act, 1962, enabled effect to be given in domestic law to those four conventions
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1987-12-02/40/
2 Dec 1987 -
That practice is reflected in the Prosecution of Offences Act, 1974 itself....Under section 3 (5) of that Act, the Attorney General's consent is required for prosecutions under the...Geneva Conventions Act, 1962, the Official Secrets Act, 1963, and the Genocide Act, 1973....Both the Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act, 1976 and the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1978 give the Attorney...General a function in prosecutions under those Acts.
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2010-06-02/6/#pq_6
Wed, 2 Jun 2010 -
The Act of 1938 permits payment to the society of funds by way of grant....The society has certain rights arising from the Geneva Convention....Under the convention, the Government is required to discharge certain obligations to the society including...The Geneva Convention is given effect in Irish law through the Red Cross Act 1954, the Prisoners of War...and Enemy Aliens Act 1956 and the Geneva Conventions Act 1962, as amended in 1998.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-05-18/21/
18 May 2004 -
over any offence committed in any state by a person of any nationality, was previously adopted in the Geneva...Conventions Acts 1962 and 1998 in respect of grave breaches under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and...Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions of 1977....genocide is consolidated in section 7, while in section 6, existing definitions of war crimes under the Geneva...Convention are expanded and a new offence of crimes against humanity is created.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1975-11-26/32/
26 Nov 1975 -
Section 3 of the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962 provides that if any person, whatever his nationality,...commits whether in the State or outside the State a grave breach of certain articles of the Geneva Conventions...Section 38 of the Extradition Act, 1965, provides that where an Irish citizen does an act outside the...wrongly in authorising the signing and ratification of the conventions referred to in those statutes...on this State to try persons who breach the convention outside the territory of this State.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1987-12-04/3/
4 Dec 1987 -
Those arrangements will be enhanced both by the implementation of the Extradition (European Convention...Those statutes include the Criminal Law (Jurisdiction) Act, 1976, the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1978..., and the powers reserved in relation to the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962, the Official Secrets Act,...1963, and the Genocide Act, 1973, by section 3 (5) of the Prosecution of Offences Act, 1974....Convention.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2006-06-13/10/
13 Jun 2006 -
the Crime of Genocide and the Geneva Conventions of 1949....Conventions Acts 1962 and 1998 in respect of grave breaches under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and...Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions of 1977....The Defence Act 1954 and the Geneva Conventions Act 1962 are amended so as to align penalties available...might be refused under that Act.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1964-03-12/5/
12 Mar 1964 -
the ambiguous situation around our coast was resolved with the passing of the Maritime Jurisdiction Act...based on the Canadian-US proposal at Geneva should be opened for signature....the ad hoc Committee on Legal Co-operation, established by the Committee of Ministers in December, 1962...Deputies may recall the very successful study group on Community Development held at Gormanston in 1962...distinct from the OECD study on the long-term needs for educational resources which was started in 1962
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1975-04-24/6/
24 Apr 1975 -
Act, 1965; the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1973; and the Geneva Conventions Act, 1962....Although it was not necessary for the purposes of the convention, section 11 of this Act —which creates...liable to extradition, the Geneva Conventions Act 1962 and section 11 of the Air Navigation and Transport...we have ratified—and implemented in our municipal law— such as the Geneva Red Cross Conventions of 1949..., the European Convention on Extradition of 1957 and the Hague Convention on Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft
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Publication
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/committee/dail/32/joint_committee_on_foreign_affairs_and_trade_and_defence/submissions/2017/2017-11-30_opening-statement-marie-crawley-sadaka_en.pdf
30 Nov 2017 -
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2008-11-13/11/#pq_11
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 -
Against Torture) Act 2000 and the Geneva Conventions Acts 1962-1998...., in the context of the State's obligations under the Chicago Convention....The Deputy will appreciate that these Acts and the convention are not matters for which my Department...and the Chicago Convention....We are examining the legislation in the context of the Chicago Convention.
