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(1) Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected Appeals byinternee has been sentenced to death or to imprisonment for a ~:~!~~!~d term of two years or more, the time within which he must give notice of appeal or notice of his application for leave to appeal to the West African Court of Appeal or the time within which he must enter his appeal to the Supreme Court as the case may be, shall, notwithstanding anything in the Ordinances relating to such appeals, be the period from the date of his conviction or, in the case of an appeal against sentence, of his sentence to the expiration of ten days after the date on which he receives a notice given- (a) in the case of a protected prisoner of war, by an officer of Her Majesty's forces; (b) in the case of a protected internee by or on behalf of the Superintendent or Keeper of the prison in which he is confined, that the protecting power has been notified of his conviction and sentence, and in a case to which the foregoing provisions of this sub-section apply, a reference to the period aforesaid shall be substituted for any reference to the period of ten days after the date of conviction in sub-section (1) of section 7 of the West African Court of Appeal (Criminal Cases) Ordinance or for any Cap. 15, reference to the period of fifteelll days or thirty days in section 5 of the Appeals from Magistrates' Courts Ordinance, as the case Cap. 16. may be. (2) Where after an appeal to the Supreme Court the sentence on a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee remains Cap. 16. Cap. 289] Geneva Conventions or has become a sentence of imprisonment for a term of two years or more, the time within which he must enter his appeal to the West African Court of Appeal shall, instead of being a period of eight days from the date when the decision of the Supreme Court was given (as prescribed in sub-section 2 of section 33 of the Appeals from Magistrates' Courts Ordinance) be a period from that date to seven days after the date when the convicted person receives a notice given as mentioned in paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, paragraph (b) of subsection (l) that the protecting power has been notified of the decision of the Supreme Court.