GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT

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LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA   

GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1. Short title and application.
2. Interpretation.

Punishment of offenders against Conventions

3. Grave breaches of Conventions.
4. Power to provide for punishment of other breaches of Conventions.

Provisions as to certain legal proceedings

5. Notice of trial of protected persons to be served on protecting power.
6. Legal representation of certain persons.
7. Appeals by protected persons.
8. Deferment of execution of sentence of death on prisoner of war.
9. Reduction of sentence and custody of protected person.

Prevention of abuse of Red Cross and other emblems

10. Use of Red Cross and other emblems.

Miscellaneous

11.    Institution of proceedings and jurisdiction.
12. State application of certain sections.
13. Repeal.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE – Articles of the Conventions defining grave breaches of the Conventions and providing for the trial of persons alleged to have committed such breaches

SECOND SCHEDULE – Certain other Articles of the Conventions referred to in the Act

THIRD SCHEDULE – Enactments repealed

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GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT

An Act to enable effect to be given in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to certain international conventions done at Geneva on the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-nine and for purposes connected therewith.

[1960 No. 54.]

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[Commencement.] [30th September, 1960]         

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