IV. Obligations to provide or respect due to activities of the occupying power

1. Legislative competences - Articles 64 to 75 of the Fourth Geneva Convention Article 43 of the 1907 Hague Regulations expresses the basic principle that an occupying power has to respect, unless absolutely prevented from doing so, the laws in force in the occupied country. Its “Geneva law counterpart”, Article 64 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, may be considered as elucidating the expression “unless absolutely prevented”. Notwithstanding that the first paragraph of Article 64 of the Fourth..