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Article 18.

(a) The religious, medical and hospital staff of any captured ship shall be respected and protected; they may continue to carry out their duties as long as this is necessary for the care of wounded and sick.

(b) on landing they shall be subject to the stipulations provided for captured hospital staff by the Geneva Conventions and by the Eleventh Hague Convention of 1907.

Article 10.

(a) The religious, medical and hospital staff of any captured ship is inviolable, and its members cannot be made prisoners of war. on leaving the ship they take with them the objects and surgical instruments which are their own private property.

(b) This staff shall continue to discharge. its duties while necessary, and can afterwards leave when the Commander-in-Chief considers it possible.

(c) The belligerents must guarantee to the said staff that has fallen into their hands the same allowances and the same pay as are granted to the persons holding the same rank in their own navy.

(Cp. G.C. 1906, Art. 13.)

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Admiralty Sub-Committee's

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Geneva, 1947, Draft

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Hague X