Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land

Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land

 

Article 1

The High Contracting Parties shall issue instructions to their armed land
forces, which shall be in conformity with the “Regulations respecting the
Laws and Customs of War on Land”annexed to the present Convention.

Article 2

The provisions contained in the Regulations mentioned in Article 1 are
only binding on the Contracting Powers, in case of war between two or
more of them.

These provisions shall cease to be binding from the time when, in a war
between Contracting Powers, a non-Contracting Power joins one of the
belligerents.

Article 3

The present Convention shall be ratified as speedily as possible. The
ratifications shall be deposited at the Hague.

A procŠs-verbal shall be drawn up recording the receipt of each
ratification, and a copy, duly certified, shall be sent through the
diplomatic channel, to all the Contracting Powers.

Article 4

Non-Signatory Powers are allowed to adhere to the present Convention.

For this purpose they must make their adhesion known to the Contracting
Powers by means of a written notification, addressed to the Netherland
Government, and by it communicated to all the other Contracting Powers.

Article 5

In the event of one of the High Contracting Parties denouncing the
present Convention, such denunciation would not take effect until a year
after the written notification made to the Netherland Government, and by
it at once communicated to all the other Contracting Powers.

This denunciation shall affect only the notifying Power.

In faith of which the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present
Convention and affixed their seals thereto.

Done at the Hague the 29th July 1899, in a single copy, which shall be
kept in the archives of the Netherland Government, and copies of which,
duly certified, shall be delivered to the Contracting Powers through the
diplomatic channel.

Conclusion

Notes

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References and Further Reading

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