An Act to enable effect to be given in Botswana to certain international conventions made at Geneva on the 12th of August, 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.

Reduction of Sentence and Custody of Protected Persons

9. (1) It shall be lawful for the President in any case in which a protected prisoner of war or a protected internee is convicted of an offence and sentenced to a term of imprisonment to direct that there shall be deducted from that term a period not exceeding the period, if any, during which that prisoner or internee was in custody in connection with that offence either before or after the commencement of the trial but before the sentence began, or is deemed to have begun, to run.

(2) In a case where a protected prisoner of war who is accused of an offence has been in civil custody in connection with that offence either before or after the commencement of the trial for an aggregate period of three months, he shall be transferred from that custody to the custody of an officer of the armed forces and thereafter remain in military custody at a camp or place in which protected prisoners of war are detained and be brought before the court at the time appointed for the trial or the continuation thereof.