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Article 20.

[Note: The full Committee recommend that this Article should be in the same terms as the corresponding Article in the Red Cross Convention see paragraphs 139 to 143 of the Main Report.]

Article 20.

(a) The provisions of Articles 20 and 21 of the Geneva Convention are applicable to hostilities at sea, in particular as regards sea- planes used as medical aircraft.

(b) Belligerents may conclude agreements to ensure the benefit of the said Convention to medical

aircraft entrusted with the search and transport of wounded, sick and shipwrecked at sea.

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Article 21.

The emblem of the Red Cross shall, with the consent of the responsible military authority, be displayed on the flags, brassards and all equipment belonging to the Medical Service, Brassards issued and stamped by a military

authority shall be worn on the left arm of the religious, medical and hospital staff of a hospital ship.

Article 22.

The emblem of the Red Cross sshall be displayed on the flags,

brassard and all equipment

belonging to the Medical Service, with the consent of the responsible military authority.

Article 23.

(a) The personnel named in Articles 17. and 18 shall carry, affixed on the left arm, a water resistant armlet, marked with the distinctive emblem, issued and stamped by the military authority. (b) Such personnel shall also carry an identity card attesting their status. This card should

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be able to be put in the pocket and be water-resistant. It shall

carry the photograph and finger- prints of the owner and be embossed with the stamp of the . military authority.

(c) The identity card should be uniform throughout the armed forces of a belligerent, and, in so far as possible, be of the same type on the armed forces of the

Contracting parties. At the outbreak of hostilities,

belligerents shall inform each

other of the model in use in their armed forces.

(d) Identity cards shall be established at least in duplicate, one copy to be given to the owner and the other kept by.the..Power of origin.

(e) Under no circumstances may the, personnel mentioned above be deprived of their armlet. or identity card.. In case, of loss they may obtain duplicates.

Article 22.

Belligerent fleets shall ensure through their respective commanders- in-chief the proper implementation of the preceding Articles, and shall arrange for unforeseen cases, in accordance with the instructions of their Governments and in conformity with the general principles of the present Convention.