Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation In this Act— “Conventions” means the First Convention, the Second Convention, the Third Convention and the Fourth Convention; “Court” does not include a court-martial or other military Court; “First Convention” means the Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in the armed forces in the field, adopted at Geneva on 12 August 1949; “Fourth Convention” means the Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war adopted at Geneva on 12 August 1949; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of internal affairs is assigned; “protected internee” means a person protected by the Fourth Convention or Protocol I and detained in Mauritius; “protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the Third Convention or a person who is protected as a prisoner of war under Protocol I; G8 – 1 [Issue 1] “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 Third Convention or the Fourth Convention or Protocol I, as the case may be; “Protocol I” means the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), done at Geneva on 10 June 1977; “Protocol II” means the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Noninternational Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), done at Geneva on 10 June 1977; “Protocols” means Protocol I and Protocol II; “Second Convention” means the Geneva Convention for the amelioration of the condition of wounded, sick, and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea, adopted at Geneva on 12 August 1949; “Third Convention” means the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, adopted at Geneva on 12 August 1949. [S. 2 amended by s. 3 of Act 2 of 2003.]