Geneva Conventions Act, 1962
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Interpretation. |
2.—In this Act— | |
“court” does not include a court-martial; | ||
“Minister” means the Minister for External Affairs; | ||
“protected internee” means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act and interned in the State; | ||
“protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act; | ||
“the protecting power”, in relation to a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee, means the power or organisation which is carrying out, in the interests of the power of which he is a national, or of whose forces he is, or was at any material time, a member, the duties assigned to protecting powers under the Convention set out in the Third, or, as the case may be, the Fourth Schedule to this Act; | ||
“the Scheduled Conventions” means the Conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act. |