Section 1: In this Act unless the context otherwise requires–

“Conventions” means (i) the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the field , done at Geneva on 12th August 1949; (ii) the Geneva Convention related to the Amelioration of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces at Sea, done at Geneva on 12th August 1949; (iii) the Geneva Convention related to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, done at Geneva on 12th August 1949; (iv) the Geneva Convention related to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of war, done at Geneva on 12th August 1949; “ Minister” means the Minister responsible for foreign affairs; “protected internee” means a person protected by the Fourth Convention or the First Protocol and interned in Sierra Leone; “protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the Third Convention or a person protected as a prisoner of war under the First Protocol; “protecting power”, in relation to a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee, means the power or organization which is carrying out, in the interest 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, the Fourth Convention or the First Protocol, as the case may be; “ Protocols” means – (i) the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12th August 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) done on 10th June 1977; (ii) the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12th August 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) done on 10th June 1977. PART II–OFFENCES IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOL 1 AND OTHER RELATED MATTERS