the protecting power definition
the protecting power means in relation to a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee, the power of organisation which is carrying out, in the interest 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, Fourth Schedule to the Act.
the protecting power means, in relation to a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee, the power or organization which is carrying out, in the interests of the power of which such prisoner or internee is a national, or of whose forces such prisoner or internee is, or was at any material time, a member, the duties assigned to protecting powers under the Third Convention, the Fourth Convention or Protocol I, as the case may be;