GENERAL
PROVISIONS
Article 1
Definitions
In this statute the following definitions shall apply:
“African Commission” means the African Commission on Human and Peoples’
Rights;
“Assembly” means
African Union;
“Board”
the Assembly
of Heads
of State and
Government
of the
means the Board of Trustees of the Fund;
“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Board;
“Charter” means the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights;
“Commission” means the African Union Commission;
“Committee”
means
Welfare of the Child:
the African
Committee
of Experts
on
the
Rights
and
“Court” means the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights;
“Executive Council” means the Executive Council of the African Union;
“Fund” means the Legal Aid Fund of Human Rights Organs of the African Union;
“Human Rights Organs of the African Union” means the African Court on
Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’
Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the
Child and any other body as may be established;
“Indigent Applicant” means an applicant for legal assistance who is determined
as such by the Fund pursuant to its policy on Legal Assistance;
“Member”
“Member
means
member of the Board;
State” means
a Member State
of the African Union;
“Statute” means the present Statute;
“Union” means
African Union.
the African Union
established
by the ‘Constitutive Act of the