Section 7: Appeals by protected persons

(1) Where a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee has been sentenced to death or to imprisonment for a term of two years or more, the time within which he must give notice of appeal to any other court in the Federation shall, notwithstanding anything in any other Act or any Law, be deemed to commence on the day on which he receives a notice given, in the case of a prisoner of war of Commonwealth citizenship by an officer of his country's forces, and in the case of an internee by or on behalf of the superintendent in charge of the prison in which he is confined, that the relevant country has been notified of his conviction and sentence, or of the determination of his appeal, as the case may be.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall affect the power which any court may possess under any written law to enlarge the time within which an appeal may be brought.
(3)
In any case to which subsection (1) of this section applies, the period of thirty days referred to in subsection (1) of section 22 of the Court of Appeal Act (which relates to the re-vesting and restitution of property on conviction), and any period prescribed for the like purpose in any other written law, shall be deemed to commence on the day on which the notice referred to in subsection (1) of this section is received.
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(4) In this section-
(a) any reference to a notice of appeal includes a reference to a notice of application for leave to appeal;
(b)
where an appeal lies from the court in which a case is tried to any other court, and from that other court to any further court or courts in Nigeria any reference to a notice of appeal, or to the determination of an appeal, includes a notice of appeal against any judgment or decision given by any court other than the Court of Appeal, whether at first instance or on appeal, or to the determination of an appeal by any court other than the Court of Appeal; and
(c) a reference to a person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for a term of two years or more includes reference to a person who, after the determination of any appeal, is ordered to be imprisoned for a term of two years or more.