Act Number: 6

Act Name: The Geneva Conventions Act, 1960

Year: 1960

Enactment Date: 1960-03-12

Long Title: An Act to enable effect to be given to certain international Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, 1949, to which India is a party, and for purposes connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of External Affairs

Department:

Section 2: Definitions.
    In this Act, unless 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, Third 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 assigned 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.
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