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Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provisions) Act

Chapter 15:04

Arrangement of sections

SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Appeals by protected persons.
4. Revesting and restitution of property on conviction.

4 of 1962 An Act to supplement the applied Act entitled the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957, so as to enable full effect to be given in relation to Guyana to certain International Conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty nine.

[3rd MARCH, 1962]

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provisions) Act.
Interpretation 5 & 6 Eliz. II. c. 52 2. In this Act the expressions protected internee, protected prisoner of war, and the protecting power have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 7 of the applied Act entitled the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957. |*|
Appels by protected persons. 3. Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee has been convicted and sentenced to death or to imprisonment for a term of two years or more, the time within which he must give notice of appeal shall notwithstanding anything in any enactment relating to such appeal be reckoned from the date on which he receives a notice given-

    (a) in the case of a protected prisoner of war, by an officer of the Guyana Defence Force;

    (b) in the case of a protected internee, by or on behalf of the officer in charge of the prison in which he is confined,

that the protecting power has been notified of his conviction and sentence, or of the making of an order, as the case may be.

Revesting and restitution of property on conviction. 4. In any case to which this Act applies a reference in any law to any period relating to the revesting and restitution of property on conviction shall be deemed a reference to the period calculated in accordance with the last preceding section.

[Source: Ministry of Legal Affairs & Attorney General's Chambers: The Laws of Guyana, A.D. 1962, Act No. 4 of 1962]

Notes:

* Extended to Guyana by applied law S.I. 1301/1959. [Back]

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