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Section 2, WHEREAS by the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957, Her

Status not yet checkedWHEREAS by the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957, Her, Sierra Leone

In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires- I~terpretatiOn. " protected internee " means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957 and interned in Sierra Leone; 5Eli~nd 6 z. 2, c. 52. " protected prisoner of war " means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Third Schedule to the said Geneva Conventions Act, 1957; "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 the said Geneva Conventions Act, 1957.

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