GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT

Section 4: Power to provide for punishment of other breaches of Conventions

1960Section 4 of 13Federal Republic of Nigeria

(1) The President may, by order provide that if any person-
(a) in Nigeria commits, or aids, abets or procures any other person to commit, whether in or outside Nigeria; or
(b)
being a citizen of Nigeria, or a member of, or attached or seconded to the armed forces of Nigeria, or a person to whom section 292 of the Armed Forces Act, applies, or a member of or serving with any voluntary aid society formed in Nigeria and recognised as such by the Federal Government, commits whether in or outside Nigeria, or aids, abets or procures any other person to commit, whether in or outside Nigeria,
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any breach of any of the Conventions which may be specified in the order other than one punishable undersection 3 of this Act, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
(2) A person may be proceeded against, tried and sentenced in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja for an offence under an order made under this section committed outside Nigeria as if the offence had been committed in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and the offence shall, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment thereof, be deemed to have been committed in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Cite this section

Section 4, GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT (1960).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/geneva-conventions-act/section/4/