Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act, 1998

Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act.

2.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 2 of the following section:

“Interpretation.

2.— In this Act—

‘court’ does not include a court-martial;

‘International Fact-Finding Commission’ means the International Fact-Finding Commission established under Article 90 of Protocol I;

‘the Minister’ means the Minister for Foreign Affairs;

‘protected internee’ means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act and Protocol I 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 (including a person protected as a prisoner of war under Protocol I) or a person entitled under Protocol I to the same protection as a prisoner of war;

‘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 or she is a national, or of whose forces he or she is, or was at any material time, a member, the duties assigned to protecting powers under the Convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act, the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act or Protocol I;

‘Protocol I’ means the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) adopted at Geneva on 8 June 1977, the text of which is set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act;

‘Protocol II’ means the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) adopted at Geneva on 8 June 1977, the text of which is set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act;

‘the Scheduled Conventions’ means the Conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act.”.