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.

Appeals by Protected Persons

8. 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, or notice of application for leave to appeal, to any tribunal having appellate jurisdiction in the matter shall, notwithstanding anything in the enactments relating to such appeals, be reckoned from the date on which he receives a notice given -

(a) in the case of a protected prisoner of war by an officer of the armed forces;

(b) in the case of a protected internee, by the officer-in-charge of the prison in which he is confined;
that the protecting power has been notified of his conviction and sentence.