Equipo Nizkor - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provisions) Act.

Arrangement of sections

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Appeal by protected persons to the Court of Appeal.

AN ACT to supplement the Geneva Convention Act 1957 of the United Kingdom as extended to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by the Geneva Conventions Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council 1959 so as to enable full effect to be given to certain international conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August nineteen hundred and fortynine.

Commencement: 2nd August 1983

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provisions) Act.

Interpretation.

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 Geneva Conventions Act, 1957, of the United Kingdom as extended to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines by the Geneva Convention Act (Colonial Territories) Order in Council 1959.

Appeals by protected persons to the Court of Appeal.

3. Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee has been convicted in the High Court in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and has on such conviction been sentenced to death or to imprisonment for a term of two years or more, the time within which he must give, notice of appeal or notice of his application for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal shall, notwithstanding anything in any written law relating to such appeals, be the period from the date of his conviction, or, in the case of an appeal against sentence, of his sentence, or, in the case of an appeal from an order, of the making of the order to the expiration of fourteen days after the date on which he receives a notice given –

(a) in the case of a protected prisoner of war, by an official of Her Majesty's forces;

(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 the order, as the case may be; and in a case to which the foregoing provisions apply –

(i) any provision in any written law suspending the operation of any order for the restitution of any property to any person made on a conviction by a court or the operation, in the case of any such conviction, of the provisions of any written law as to re-vesting of the property in stolen goods on conviction, shall have effect as if in reckoning the time during which the operation of such order is, or of such provisions are, suspended no account was required to be taken of the aforesaid period; and

(ii) any provision in any written law providing for the continued custody of any documents, exhibits or other things connected with proceedings, shall have effect as if it provided for the continued custody of such documents, exhibits or other things until the expiry of such time after the aforesaid period as is allowed for an appeal to be made to the superior court.

1983 - VCT

Geneva Conventions (Supplementary Provisions) Act

[Source: Laws of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Chapter 138, Revised Edition 1990.]

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