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Part I

Section 2

(1)

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Conventions" means the first Convention, the second Convention, the third Convention and the fourth Convention;

''court'' includes a court-martial;

"first Convention" means the Convention for the Amelioration of the

Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field signed at Geneva on 12th. August, 1949, a copy of which Convention (not including the annexes to that Convention) is set out in the First

Schedule;

"fourth Convention" means the Convention relating to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War signed at Geneva on 12th. August,

1949, a copy of which Convention (not including the annexes to that

Convention] is set out in the Fourth Schedule;

"Minister" means the Minister for the time being designated by His

Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan to be responsible for this

Order;

"protected internee" means a person protected by the fourth

Convention or Protocol I and interned in Brunei Darussalam;

"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;

"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 citizen, or of whose forces he is, or was at any material time, a member, the duties assigned to protecting powers under the third Convention, the fourth

Convention or Protocol I, as the case may be;

"Protocol I" means the Protocol Additional to the Conventions of 12th. August, 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of International

Armed Conflicts signed at Geneva on 10th. June, 1977, a copy of which

Protocol [including Annex I to that Protocol) is set out in the Fifth

Schedule;

"Protocol 11" means the Protocol Additional to the Conventions of 12th. August, 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts signed at Geneva on 10th. June, 1977, a copy of which Protocol is set out in the Sixth Schedule;

"Protocols" means Protocol I and Protocol 11;

"scheduled Conventions" means the Conventions set out in the

Schedules;

"second Convention" means the Convention for the Amelioration of the

Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed

Forces at Sea signed at Geneva on 12th. August, 1949, a copy of which

Convention (not including the annexes to that Convention] is set out in the Second Schedule;

"third Convention" means the Convention relating to the Treatment of

Prisoners of War signed at Geneva on 12th. August, 1949, a copy of which Convention (not including the annexes to that Convention) is set out in the Third Schedule.

(2)

References in this Order to the commencement of this Order are to the commencement of the main substantive provisions of this Order and the consequential repeal of the Geneva and Red Cross Act (Chapter 86).

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