Cap. 176 Art. 2Interpretation.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -"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.