  GENEVA CONVENTIONS (APPEALS BY PROTECTED PERSONS)      _g CAP. 176.      1
CHAPTER 176 
GENEVA CONVENTIONS (APPEALS BY 
PROTECTED PERSONS) ACT
To make provision for appeals by persons protected by certain
international conventions done at Geneva in the year 1949.
(18th December, 1962) *
Enacted by ACT X of 1962, as amended by Act XLIX of 1981.
Short title.
by Protected Persons) Act.
Interpretation.
"protected internee" means a person protected by the Geneva
Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time
of War, 1949, and interned in Malta;
"protected prisoner of war" means a person protected by the
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War,
1949;
"the protecting power", in relation to a protected prisoner of war
or a protected internee, means the power or organization 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 Geneva Convention
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949, or, as the case
may be, the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of
Civilian Persons in Time of War, 1949.
Appeals by 
protected persons. 
Amended by: 
XLIX. 1981.4.  
Cap. 9.
3. Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee
has been sentenced to imprisonment for two years or to a graver
punishment and an appeal is available under the provisions of the
Criminal Code, the time within which he shall enter such appeal
shall, notwithstanding anything in the Criminal Code, be the period
from the day on which the definitive judgment is delivered to the
expiration of ten days after the date on which he receives a notice
given -
( a ) in the case of a protected prisoner of war, by an officer
of the armed forces of Malta;
( b ) in the case of a protected internee, by or on behalf of
the person in charge of the prison in which he is
confined, 
that the protecting power has been notified of the judgment.
* See  Government Notice No. 561 of 1962.
