Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52/section/7
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7 Interpretation.U.K.
“protected internee” means a person protected by the convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act [F2(including a person so protected by virtue of the first protocol)]and interned in the United Kingdom;
“protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act [F3(including a person protected as a prisoner of war under the first protocol) or a person entitled under the first protocol to the same protection as a prisoner of war;]
[F4 “ the first protocol ” means the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) done on 10 June 1977, the text of which is set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act; ]
“the protecting power”, in relation to a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee, 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 convention set out in the Third [F5Schedule to this Act, the convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act or the first protocol;]
[F6 “ the second protocol ” means the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II ) done on 10 June 1977, the text of which is set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act. ] [F7;
“ the third protocol ” means the Protocol, additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III ) done on 8 December 2005, the text of which is set out in Schedule 7 ]
[F8(3)If the ratification by the United Kingdom of the first protocol or the second protocol is subject to any reservation or accompanied by a declaration—
F1Words in s. 7(1) repealed (1.9.2001) by 2001 c. 17, s. 83, Sch. 10 (with s. 78); S.I. 2001/2161, art. 2
F2Words in s. 7 inserted (20.7.1998) by 1995 c. 27, s. 4(2); S.I. 1998/1505, art. 2
F3Words in s. 7 inserted (20.7.1998) by 1995 c. 27, s. 4(3); S.I. 1998/1505, art. 2
F4Definition in s. 7 inserted (20.7.1998) by 1995 c. 27, s. 4(4); S.I. 1998/1505, art. 2
F5Words in s. 7 substituted (20.7.1998) by 1995 c. 27, s. 4(5); S.I. 1998/1505, art. 2
F6Definition inserted (20.7.1998) by 1995 c. 27, ss. 4(6), 7(2); S.I. 1998/1505, art. 2
F7Words in s. 7(1) added (5.4.2010) by Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009 (c. 6), ss. 1(7), 3(1); S.I. 2009/2892, art. 2
F8S. 7(3)-(5) inserted (20.7.1998) by 1995 c. 27, s. 4(7); S.I. 1998/1505, art. 2