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PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS
ART. 98. — All internees shall receive regular allowances,
sufficient to enable them to purchase goods and articles, such as
tobacco, toilet requisites, etc. Such allowances may take the form of
credits or purchase coupons.
Furthermore, internees may receive allowances from the Power
to which they owe allegiance, the Protecting Powers, the
organizations which may assist them, or their families, as well as the
income on their property in accordance with the law of the
Detaining Power. The amount of allowances granted by the Power to
which they owe allegiance shall be the same for each category of
internees (infirm, sick, pregnant women, etc.), but may not be
allocated by that Power or distributed by the Detaining Power on
the basis of discriminations between internees which are prohibited
by Article 27 of the present Convention.
The Detaining Power shall open a regular account for every
internee, to which shall be credited the allowances named in the
present Article, the wages earned and the remittances received,
together with such sums taken from him as may be available under
the legislation in force in the territory in which he is interned.
Internees shall be granted all facilities consistent with the legislation
in force in such territory to make remittances to their families and to
other dependants. They may draw from their accounts the amounts
necessary for their personal expenses, within the limits fixed by the
Detaining Power. They shall at all times be afforded reasonable
facilities for consulting and obtaining copies of their accounts. A
statement of accounts shall be furnished to the Protecting Power on
request, and shall accompany the internee in case of transfer.
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Financial
resources and
individual
accounts
CHAPTER VII
Administration and Discipline
ART. 99. — Every place of internment shall be put under the
authority of a responsible officer, chosen from the regular military
forces or the regular civil administration of the Detaining Power.
The officer in charge of the place of internment must have in his
possession a copy of the present Convention in the official language,
or one of the official languages, of his country and shall be
responsible for its application. The staff in control of internees shall
be instructed in the provisions of the present Convention and of the
administrative measures adopted to ensure its application.
Camp
administration.
Posting of the
Convention
and of orders