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PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS
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In the cases mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs,
protected persons compelled to work shall have the benefit of the
same working conditions and of the same safeguards as national
workers, in particular as regards wages, hours of labour, clothing
and equipment, previous training and compensation for
occupational accidents and diseases.
If the above provisions are infringed, protected persons shall be
allowed to exercise their right of complaint in accordance with
Article 30.
ART. 41. — Should the Power in whose hands protected persons
may be consider the measures of control mentioned in the present
Convention to be inadequate, it may not have recourse to any other
measure of control more severe than that of assigned residence or
internment, in accordance with the provisions of Articles 42 and 43.
In applying the provisions of Article 39, second paragraph, to the
cases of persons required to leave their usual places of residence by
virtue of a decision placing them in assigned residence elsewhere,
the Detaining Power shall be guided as closely as possible by the
standards of welfare set forth in Part III, Section IV of this
Convention.
IV.
Assigned
residence.
Internment
ART. 42. — The internment or placing in assigned residence of
protected persons may be ordered only if the security of the
Detaining Power makes it absolutely necessary.
If any person, acting through the representatives of the
Protecting Power, voluntarily demands internment, and if his
situation renders this step necessary, he shall be interned by the
Power in whose hands he may be.
V.
Grounds for
internment
or assigned
residence.
Voluntary
internment
ART. 43. — Any protected person who has been interned or
placed in assigned residence shall be entitled to have such action
reconsidered as soon as possible by an appropriate court or
administrative board designated by the Detaining Power for that
purpose. If the internment or placing in assigned residence is
maintained, the court or administrative board shall periodically,
and at least twice yearly, give consideration to his or her case, with a
view to the favourable amendment of the initial decision, if
circumstances permit.
Unless the protected persons concerned object, the Detaining
Power shall, as rapidly as possible, give the Protecting Power the
names of any protected persons who have been interned or
subjected to assigned residence, or who have been released from
internment or assigned residence. The decisions of the courts or
VI.
Procedure