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Section 2 — Definitions

From: The Geneva Conventions Act, 1960

2. Definitions .-In this Act, u nless the context otherwise requires, -

(a)“Conventions ” means the Conventions set out in the Schedules; and the First Convention, the Second Convention, the Third Convention and the Fourth Convention mean the Conventions set out in the First, Second, Thir d and Fourth Schedules, respectively;
(b)“court ” does not include a court -martial or military court;
(c)“protected internee ” means a person protected by the Fourth Convention and interned in India;
(d)“protecting power ”, in relation to a protected internee or a protected prisoner of war, 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 a ssigned to protecting powers under the Third Convention or, as the case may be, the Fourth Convention;
(e)“protected prisoner of war ” means a person protected by the Third Convention.