Practice Relating to Rule 28. Medical Units
Ireland’s Geneva Conventions Act (1962), as amended in 1998, provides that any “minor breach” of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including violations of Article 19 and Articles 21–22 of the Geneva Convention I and Articles 18 and 19 of the Geneva Convention IV, and of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, including violations of Articles 12 and 13, as well as any “contravention” of the 1977 Additional Protocol II, including violations of Article 11(1)–(2), are punishable offences.