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.