What the official record says
This Act is the Cultural Property (Protection in Armed Conflict) Act . This Act comes into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council. One or more Orders in Council may be made appointing different dates for the commencement of different provisions and for different purposes. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— means the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, done at The Hague on 14 May 1954, a copy of the English text of which is set out in means the Protocol to the Convention, done at The Hague on 14 May 1954, a copy of the English text of which is set out in means a party to the First Protocol and includes a state that accepts and applies the provisions of that Protocol in accordance with its t