[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR506.16]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

 CHAPTER V--FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION OF THE UNITED STATES, 

                          DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

 

PART 506_ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPENSATION--Table of Contents

 

                       Subpart B_Prisoners of War

 

Sec. 506.16  Failure to meet the conditions and requirements prescribed 

under the Geneva Convention of August 12, 1949.



    For the purpose of this part, obligations under the Geneva 

Convention of August 12, 1949, consist of the responsibility assumed by 

the contracting parties thereto with respect to prisoners of war within 

the meaning of the Convention, to comply with and to fully observe the 

provisions of the Convention, and particularly those articles relating 

to food rations of prisoners of war, humane treatment, protection, and 

labor of prisoners of war, and the failure to abide by the conditions 

and requirements established in such Convention by any hostile force 

with which the Armed Forces of the United States were engaged in armed 

conflict.