There are no rules or case-law relating explicitly to the effects on the right to vote of the extension of an electoral constituency beyond the internationally recognized borders of a State.46 However, Art. 49 of the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, according to which “[t]he Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies”, should be taken into consideration. That means that nationals of an occupying state cannot be considered and treated as habitual legal residents of an occupied territory for the purposes of any elections.