Agreements providing for additional or reduced privileges and immunities.
1968 c. 18, s. 3.
Second Schedule.
Civil jurisdic-
service on board ship or aircraft.
1968 c. 18, s. 4.
Ord. No. 17/70.
CONSULAR RELATIONS
4. (1) Where any agreement made, whether befo Or after the commencement of this Ordinance, between the Uned Kingdom and any other State provides for according to consular posts and persons connected with them privileges and immunities not accorded to them by the other provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor may by order exercise, with respect to the consular posts of that State in Hong Kong and persons connected with them, the powers specified in the Second Schedule so far as may be necessary to give effect to that agreement.
(2) Where any agreement made, whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, between the United Kingdom and any other State provides for according to consular posts and persons connected with them some but not all of the privileges and immunities accorded to them by the other provisions of this Ordinance, the Governor may by order provide for excluding, with respect to consular posts of that State in Hong Kong and persons connected with them, any of those privileges and im- munities which are not provided for by the agreement.
5. The Governor may by order make provision for ex- tion concerning cluding or limiting the jurisdiction of any court in Hong Kong to entertain proceedings relating to the remuneration or any contract of service of the master or commander or a member of the crew of any ship or aircraft belonging to a State specified in the order, except where a consular officer of that State has been notified of the intention to invoke the jurisdiction of that court and has not objected within such time as may be specified by or under the order.
Jurisdiction over offences committed on board ship.
1968 c. 18, s. 5.
6. (1) The Governor may by order make provision for securing that, where an offence is alleged to have been committed on board any ship by the master or a member of the crew and the ship belongs to a State specified in the order, proceedings for the offence instituted otherwise than at the request or with the consent of a consular officer of that State are not entertained by any court in Hong Kong unless--
(a) the offence is alleged to have been committed by or against a person who is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or is otherwise comprised in the definition of "national of the receiving State" in subsection (2) of section 2, or against a person other than the master or a member of the crew; or
(b) the offence is one involving the tranquillity or safety of a port, or the law relating to safety of life at sea, public health, oil pollution, .wireless telegraphy, immigration or customs or is of any other description specified in the order; or