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Back to: Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
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Article 52 - Responsibilities of the Contracting Parties

No High Contracting Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting Party of any liability incurred by itself or by another High Contracting Party in respect of breaches referred to in the preceding Article .

Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Title of the Convention:
Preamble
Chapter I: General provisions
Article 1 - Respect for the Convention
Article 2 - Application of the Convention
Article 3 - Conflicts not of an international character
Article 4 - Field of application
Article 5 - Application by neutral powers
Article 6 - Special agreements
Article 7 - Non-renunciation of rights
Article 8 - Protecting powers
Article 9 - Activities of the ICRC and other impartial humanitarian organizations
Article 10 - Substitutes for Protecting Powers
Article 11 - Conciliation procedure
Chapter II: Wounded, sick and shipwrecked
Article 12 - Protection and care of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked
Article 13 - Protected persons
Article 14 - Handing over of wounded, sick and shipwrecked to a belligerent
Article 15 - Wounded, sick and shipwrecked taken on board a neutral warship or neutral military aircraft
Article 16 - Status of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked who have fallen into enemy hands
Article 17 - Wounded, sick and shipwrecked landed in a neutral port
Article 18 - Search for casualties after an engagement
Article 19 - Recording and forwarding of information
Article 20 - Prescriptions regarding the dead
Article 21 - Appeals to neutral vessels
Chapter III: Hospital ships
Article 22 - Notification and protection of military hospital ships
Article 23 - Protection of medical establishments ashore
Article 24 - Hospital ships utilized by relief societies and private individuals of Parties to the conflict
Article 25 - Hospital ships utilized by relief societies and private persons of neutral countries
Article 26 - Tonnage of hospital ships
Article 27 - Protection of coastal rescue craft and fixed coastal installations
Article 28 - Protection of sick-bays
Article 29 - Hospitals ships in a port fallen into enemy hands
Article 30 - Employment of hospital ships and coastal rescue craft
Article 31 - Right of control and search of hospital ships and coastal rescue craft
Article 32 - Stay of hospital ships and coastal rescue craft in a neutral port
Article 33 - Converted merchant vessels
Article 34 - Discontinuance of protection of hospital ships
Article 35 - Conditions not depriving hospital ships of protection
Chapter IV: Personnel
Article 36 - Protection of the personnel of hospital ships
Article 37 - Protection of medical and religious personnel of other ships
Chapter V: Medical transports
Article 38 - Ships used for the conveyance of medical equipment
Article 39 - Medical aircraft
Article 40 - Flight over neutral countries. Landing of the wounded, sick and shipwrecked
Chapter VI: The distinctive emblem
Article 41 - Use of the emblem
Article 42 - Identification of medical and religious personnel
Article 43 - Marking of hospital ships and coastal rescue craft
Article 44 - Limitation in the use of the distinctive signs
Article 45 - Prevention of misuse of the distinctive signs
Chapter VII: Execution of the Convention
Article 46 - Detailed execution. Unforeseen cases
Article 47 - Prohibition of reprisals
Article 48 - Dissemination of the Convention
Article 49 - Translations. Implementing laws and regulations
Chapter VIII: Repression of abuses and infractions
Article 50 - Penal sanctions
Article 51 - Grave Breaches
Article 52 - Responsibilities of the Contracting Parties
Article 53 - Enquiry procedure
Final provisions
Article 54 - Languages
Article 55 - Signature
Article 56 - Ratification
Article 57 - Coming into force
Article 58 - Relation to the 1907 Hague Convention (X)
Article 59 - Accession
Article 60 - Notification of accessions
Article 61 - Immediate effect
Article 62 - Denunciation
Article 63 - Registration with the United Nations
Testimonium
Sources
Annex - Identity card for members of medical and religious personnel attached to the armed forces at sea
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