1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Geneva Conventions
Act, 1960.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Conventions” means the Conventions set out in the Schedules; and the First Convention, the
Second Convention, the Third Convention and the Fourth Convention mean the Conventions set out
in the First, Second, Third and Fourth Schedules, respectively;
(b) “court” does not include a court-martial or military court;
(c) “protected internee” means a person protected by the Fourth Convention and interned in India;
(d) “protecting power”, in relation to a protected internee or a protected prisoner of war, 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 Third Convention or, as the case may be, the Fourth Convention;
(e) “protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the Third Convention.