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The document outlines the financial provisions for prisoners of war under the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, specifying different amounts of pay based on rank categories. It allows for modifications to these amounts through special agreements and provides guidelines for the Detaining Power regarding limitations on available funds. Additionally, it states that supplementary pay from the prisoners' home Power must be distributed equally among prisoners of the same category and does not exempt the Detaining Power from its obligations under the Convention.

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The document outlines the financial provisions for prisoners of war under the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, specifying different amounts of pay based on rank categories. It allows for modifications to these amounts through special agreements and provides guidelines for the Detaining Power regarding limitations on available funds. Additionally, it states that supplementary pay from the prisoners' home Power must be distributed equally among prisoners of the same category and does not exempt the Detaining Power from its obligations under the Convention.

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114 THIRD GENEVA CONVENTION OF 1949

Conversion, into the currency of the said Power, of the following amounts:

Category I : Prisoners ranking below sergeants: eight Swiss


francs.
Category II : Sergeants and other non-commissioned officers,
or prisoners of equivalent rank; twelve Swiss
francs
Category III :Warrant officers and commissioned officers below
the rank of major or prisoners of equivalent rank:
fifty Swiss francs.
Category IV : Majors, lieutenant-colonels, colonels or prisoners
of equivalent rank: sixty Swiss francs.
Category V : General officers or prisoners of war of equivalent
rank: seventy-five Swiss francs.
However, the Parties to the conflict concerned may by special
agreement modify the amount of advances of pay due to prisoners of the
preceding categories.
Furthermore, if the amounts indicated in the first paragraph above
would be unduly high compared with the pay of the Detaining Power’s
armed forces or would, for any reason, seriously embarrass the Detaining
Power, then, pending the conclusion of a special agreement with the
Power on which the prisoners depend to vary the amounts indicated above,
the Detaining Power:
a) Shall continue to credit the accounts of the prisoners with the
amounts indicated in the first paragraph above;
b) May temporarily limit the amount made available from these
advances of pay to prisoners of war for their own use, to sums
which are reasonable, but which, for Category 1, shall never be
inferior to the amount that the Detaining Power gives to the
members of its own armed forces.
The reasons for any limitations will be given without delay to the
Protecting Power.

Supplemen- ART. 61. The Detaining Power shall accept for distribution as
tary pay supplementary pay to prisoners of war sums which the Power on which
the prisoners depend may forward to them, on condition that the sums to
be paid shall be the same for each prisoner of the same category, shall be
payable to all prisoners of that category depending on that Power, and
shall be placed in their separate accounts, at the earliest opportunity, in
accordance with the provisions of Article 64. Such supplementary pay
shall not relieve the Detaining Power of any obligation under this
Convention.

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