Geneva Conventions Act 1957

General.

7 Interpretation.

(1) In this Act the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, that is to say—

• " court " does not include a court-martial;

• " enactment " includes an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland;

• " protected internee " means a person protected by the convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act and interned in the United Kingdom ;

• " 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, Fourth Schedule to this Act;

• " the scheduled conventions " means the conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act.

(2) Save where the context otherwise requires, references in this Act to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.

8 Short title and extent.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957.

(2) Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any of the provisions of this Act specified in the Order shall extend, subject to such exceptions and modifications, if any, as may be specified in the Order to—

(a) any of the Channel Islands ;

(b) the Isle of Man ;

(c) any colony;

(d) any country outside Her Majesty's dominions in which for the time being Her Majesty has jurisdiction ;

(e) any country consisting partly of one or more colonies and partly of one or more such countries as are mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph.