GENEVA CONVENTIONS (APPEALS BY PROTECTED PERSONS) ACT

CHAPTER 176

GENEVA CONVENTIONS (APPEALS BY

PROTECTED PERSONS) ACT

To make provision for appeals by persons protected by certain

international conventions done at Geneva in the year 1949.

(18th December, 1962) *

Enacted by ACT X of 1962, as amended by Act XLIX of 1981.

This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions (Appeals

by Protected Persons) Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -

"protected internee" means a person protected by the Geneva

Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time

of War, 1949, and interned in Malta;

"protected prisoner of war" means a person protected by the

Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War,

1949;

"the 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 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 Geneva Convention

Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949, or, as the case

may be, the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of

Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949.

Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee

has been sentenced to imprisonment for two years or to a graver

punishment and an appeal is available under the provisions of the

Criminal Code, the time within which he shall enter such appeal

shall, notwithstanding anything in the Criminal Code, be the period

from the day on which the definitive judgment is delivered 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 the armed forces of Malta;

(b) in the case of a protected internee, by or on behalf of

the person in charge of the prison in which he is

confined,

that the protecting power has been notified of the judgment.

*See Government Notice No. 561 of 1962.