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CONFIDENTIAL
DSR 11C
Schedule, paragraph 1
also
We wish to ensure that, as is the case with diplomatic
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agents under Article 39(2) scheduled to the Diplomatic
Privileges Act 1964, immunity with respect to acts performed
in the exercise of official functions continues even after
Kingdom.
the member of the Joint Liaison Group has left the United
We wonder whether the temporal limitation imported
by the words "while in the United Kingdom" does not excludes
this effect of Article 39(2). It would seem to us that
Article 39 itself will automatically ensure that the Chinese
members of the Group only enjoy the full range of privileges
and immunities (ie other than official act immunity) from
the time they arrive in the United Kingdom the time they
leave.
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8.
We note that paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the International
Organisations Act 1968 refers to "the like immunity
inviolability
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as are accorded to or in respect of the
head of a diplomatic mission". It could be that the words
"in respect of" are included because certain of the Articles
scheduled to the Diplomatic Privileges Act are drafted in
terms of conferring inviolability upon the residence, papers,
baggage, etc of a diplomatic agent rather than on the
diplomatic agent himself. We should, of course, wish to
ensure that the full range of privileges and immunities is
conferred.
We wish to include a provision corresponding to Section 4
9.
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of the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964, which provides for a
conclusive certificate on any fact relevant to privileges
and immunities.
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/We note