Geneva Conventions Act, 1962

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.