Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093:schedule:4:p37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2016C01093
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 4 (pt 37/49)
Character Range: 330167–332919

be only temporary and its duration shall be as short as possible.
Article 113
 The Detaining Powers shall provide all reasonable facilities for the transmission, through the Protecting Power or the Central Agency provided for in Article 140, or as otherwise required, of wills, powers of attorney, letters of authority, or any other documents intended for internees or despatched by them.
 In all cases the Detaining Powers shall facilitate the execution and authentication in due legal form of such documents on behalf of internees, in particular by allowing them to consult a lawyer.
Article 114
 The Detaining Power shall afford internees all facilities to enable them to manage their property, provided this is not incompatible with the conditions of internment and the law which is applicable. For this purpose, the said Power may give them permission to leave the place of internment in urgent cases and if circumstances allow.
Article 115
 In all cases where an internee is a party to proceedings in any court, the Detaining Power shall, if he so requests, cause the court to be informed of his detention and shall, within legal limits, ensure that all necessary steps are taken to prevent him from being in any way prejudiced, by reason of his internment, as regards the preparation and conduct of his case or as regards the execution of any judgment of the court.
Article 116
 Every internee shall be allowed to receive visitors, especially near relatives, at regular intervals and as frequently as possible.
 As far as is possible, internees shall be permitted to visit their homes in urgent cases, particularly in cases of death or serious illness of relatives.
CHAPTER IX.—PENAL AND DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONS
Article 117
 Subject to the provisions of the present Chapter, the laws in force in the territory in which they are detained will continue to apply to internees who commit offences during internment.
 If general laws, regulations or orders declare acts committed by internees to be punishable, whereas the same acts are not punishable when committed by persons who are not internees, such acts shall entail disciplinary punishments only.
 No internee may be punished more than once for the same act, or on the same count.
Article 118
 The courts or authorities shall in passing sentence take as far as possible into account the fact that the defendant is not a national of the Detaining Power. They shall be free to reduce the penalty prescribed for the offence with which the internee is charged and shall not be obliged, to this end, to apply the minimum sentence prescribed.
 Imprisonment in premises without daylight and, in general, all forms of cruelty without exception are forbidden.
 Internees who have served disciplinary or