Clause 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —“court” does not include a subordinate military court constituted under the Singapore Armed Forces Act, 1972 (Act 7 of 1972);“protected internee” means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act and interned in Singapore;“protected prisoner of war” means a person protected by the Convention set out in the Third Schedule to this Act;“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 or, as the case may be, the Fourth Schedule to this Act;“scheduled Conventions” means the Conventions set out in the Schedules to this Act.