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Geneva Conventions Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. Short title and application.

2. Interpretation.

Punishment of offenders against Conventions

3. Grave breaches of Conventions.

4. Power to provide for punishment of other breaches of Conventions.

Provisions as to certain legal proceedings

5. Notice of trial of protected persons to be served on protecting power.

6. Legal representation of certain persons.

7. Appeals by protected persons.

8. Deferment of execution of sentence of death on prisoner of war.

9. Reduction of sentence and custody of protected person.

Prevention of abuse of Red Cross and other emblems

10. Use of Red Cross and other emblems.

Miscellaneous

11. Institution of proceedings and jurisdiction.

12. State application of certain sections.

13. Repeal.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Articles of the Conventions defining grave breaches of the Conventions and providing for the trial of persons alleged to have committed such breaches

SECOND SCHEDULE

Certain other Articles of the Conventions referred to in the Act

THIRD SCHEDULE

Enactments repealed

GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT

An Act to enable effect to be given in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to certain international conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-nine and for purposes connected therewith.

[1960 No. 54.]

[30th September, 1960] [Commencement.]

1. Short title and application

This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions Act, and shall have effect as provided in section 12 of this Act.

2. Interpretation

(1) In this Act, the expression "the Conventions" means-
(a) the First Geneva Convention, 1949;
(b) the Second Geneva Convention 1949;
(c) the Third Geneva Convention 1949; and
(d) the Fourth Geneva Convention, 1949, and such Conventions respectively mean the Convention done in each case at Geneva on the 12th day of August, 1949-
(i) for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and sick in armed forces in the field;
(ii) for the amelioration of the condition of wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea;
(iii) relative to the treatment of prisoners of war; and
(iv) relative to the protection of civilians in time of war.

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