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GUYANA RED CROSS SOCIETY (INCORPORATIONS) ACT
CHAPTER 24:01
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CHAPTER 24:01
GUYANA RED CROSS SOCIETY (INCORPORATION) ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Incorporation of the Guyana Red Cross Society.
4. Purposes of the Society.
5. Recognition as a Voluntary Aid Society.
6. Government of the Society.
7. Power to make rules.
8. Vesting of assets of the former Branch in the Society.
9. Offences.
SCHEDULE—Geneva Convention.
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25 of 1967 An Act to incorporate the Guyana Red Cross Society and to
provide for matters related thereto.
[30TH DECEMBER, 1967]
Short title.
Interpretation.
Incorporation
1. This Act may be cited as the Guyana Red Cross
Society (Incorporation) Act.
2. In this Act—
“the former Branch” means the Branch of the British Red
Cross Society that was in existence in Guyana
immediately before the commencement of this Act;
“the Rules” means the Rules of the Society for the time being
in force under this Act;
“the Society” means the Guyana Red Cross Society
constituted by section 3.
3. The officers and members of the former Branch and
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of the Guyana
Red Cross
Society.

Recognition as
all persons who may hereafter become officers or members of
the Society are constituted a body corporate by the name of
the Guyana Red Cross Society.
4. The purposes of the Society shall be—
(a) in time of war, to furnish volunteer aid to
the sick and wounded both of armies and
among non-belligerents and to prisoners of
war and civilian sufferers from the effects of
war, in accordance with the Geneva
Conventions as specified in the Schedule;
(b) to perform all duties developing upon a
national society of a state which has acceded
to, or has otherwise accepted the obligations
of, the said Conventions;
(c) in time of peace or war to carry on and assist
in work for the improvement of health, the
prevention of disease and the relief of
suffering throughout the world;
(d) to organise classes and lectures and publish
and sell or distribute papers, books,
pamphlets and information for the purpose
of stimulating interest in and promoting the
objects of the Society and of qualifying
persons to assist therein and to take all other
measures which may seem necessary for
providing and maintaining as efficient
organisation for the purposes of the Society;
(e) to do all such other acts and things as are or
may be deemed incidental or conducive to
the attainment of any of the purposes of the
Society or the exercise of any of its powers.
5. The Society is recognised by the Government of
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a Voluntary
Aid Society.
Government of
the Society.


Power to make
rules.
Guyana as a Voluntary Aid Society, auxiliary to the public
authorities in particular for the purposes of the said
Conventions and shall have the right to have and use or
permit to be used in carrying out its purposes as an emblem
and badge the heraldic emblem of the red cross on a white
ground, formed by reversing the Federal colours of
Switzerland.
6. (1) The Governing body of the Society shall be a
Council constituted in accordance with the Rules and with
such powers and duties as may, subject to this Act, be
prescribed by the Rules.
(2) Until the said Council is constituted as
aforesaid, the Branch Committee of the former Branch shall
be deemed for all purposes to be the Council.
(3) There shall be an Executive Committee
constituted in accordance with the Rules and with such
powers and duties as may, subject to this Act, be prescribed
by the Rules.
7. (1) The Council may make rules as appear to it
necessary for the management of the affairs of the Society and
the accomplishment of its objects and in particular, and
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing,
providing for—
(a) the organisation and functions of branches
and divisions of the Society;
(b) the appointment and duties of the officers of
the Society;
(c) the custody of the property of the Society
and the keeping and auditing of Accounts;
(d) the use of the Red Cross emblem and budge
by officers and members of the Society;
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Vesting of
assets of the
former Branch
in the society.

Offences.
(e) the making of appeals to the public for
financial or other support for the Society;
(f) the terms on which the Society may
associate with other voluntary organisations
for any purpose which is included among
the purposes of the Society;
(g) the qualifications and functions of the
members of the Society and their
organisation in various classes according to
their qualifications.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section
21 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Act, it shall not
be necessary for any such rules to be published in the Gazette,
but a copy thereof shall be furnished to the Minister to whom
responsibility for defence has for the time being been
assigned.
8. (1) All the assets and liabilities of the former Branch
are hereby transferred to and vested in the Society.
(2) All deeds, bonds, instruments and contracts
subsisting immediately before the commencement of this Act
to which the Branch Committee of the former Branch or any
person on its behalf is a party shall be of as full force and
effect against or in favour of the Society and enforceable as
fully and effectually as if, instead of the said Branch
Committee or any person on its behalf, the Society had been a
party thereto.
9. Any person not being a member of the Society
who—
(a) holds himself out to be or allows himself to
be supposed to be a member of or an agent
for, the Society for the purpose of soliciting,
collecting or receiving money or material; or
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(b) wears or displays the emblem of the Red
Cross on an article of clothing, badge, paper
or in any other way whatsoever, or any
insignia coloured in imitation thereof in
such a way as to be likely to deceive those to
whom it is visible, for the purpose of
inducing the belief that he is a member of, or
agent for the Society, or that he has been
recognised by the Society as possessing any
qualification for administering first aid or
other treatment for the relief of sickness,
is liable on summary conviction to a fine of two hundred and
fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term of six months.
SCHEDULE
GENEVAL CONVENTIONS
Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of
the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field, of the
12th August, 1949.
Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of
the wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed
forces at sea, of the 12th August, 1949.
Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of
war, of 12th August, 1949.
Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian
persons in time of war, of 12th August, 1949.
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