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Geneva Conventions (Supplementary) Act
The Bahamas

CHAPTER 95

GENEVA CONVENTIONS (SUPPLEMENTARY)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Appeals by protected persons.

CHAPTER 95

GENEVA CONVENTIONS (SUPPLEMENTARY)

An Act entitled the Geneva Conventions (Supplementary) Act. 5 of 1961

[Commencement 18th May, 1961]
1. This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions (Supplementary) Act. Short title.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -- Interpretation.
    "Act" means the Geneva Convention Act, 1957 of the United Kingdom as modified by the Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council, 1959, and any subsequent Order in Council modifying the same;
    "protected internee" means a person protected by the convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to the Act;
    "protected prisoner of war" means a person protected by the convention set out in the Third Schedule to the Act;
    "the protecting power" means in relation to a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee, the power of organisation which is carrying out, in the interest 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, Fourth Schedule to the Act.
5 & 6 Eliz. 2 c. 52.
3. Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee has been sentenced to death or to imprisonment for a term of two years or more under the provisions of the Act, the time within which he must give notice of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, shall, notwithstanding anything in any Act relating to appeals, be the period from the date of his conviction, or in the case of an appeal against sentence, of his sentence to the expiration of ten days after the date on which he receives a notice given --
    (a) in the case of a protected prisoner of war, by an officer of Her Majesty's forces;
    (b) in the case of a protected internee, by or on behalf of the Superintendent of Prison in which he is confined,

that the protecting power has been notified of his conviction and sentence.

 Appeals by protected persons.

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