PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions Act.
Interpretation
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“court” does not include a subordinate military court constituted under the Singapore Armed Forces Act [Cap. 295].
“protected internee” means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule and interned in Singapore;
“protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Third Schedule;
“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 Convention set out in the Third or, as the case may be, the Fourth Schedule;
“red crescent emblem” means the emblem of a red crescent on a white ground as depicted in Part I of the Sixth Schedule;
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“red cross emblem” means the emblem of a red cross on a white ground formed by reversing the Federal Colours of Switzerland as depicted in Part II of the Sixth Schedule;
[55/2007 wef 15/01/2008]
“red crystal emblem” means the emblem of a red crystal composed of a red frame in the shape of a square on edge on a white ground as depicted in Part III of the Sixth Schedule;
[55/2007 wef 15/01/2008]
“red lion and sun emblem” means the emblem of a red lion and sun on a white ground as depicted in Part IV of the Sixth Schedule;