23-JAN-1992
10:00
POLITICAL ADVISOR OFFICE
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[1977 Ed
1977 Ed.]
International Organizations and
Diplomatic Privileges ·
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ers and servants of
in the notiɓcation,
d. the immunities and First Schedule,
e effect for the purpose atives and members as e families of oficers of eges conferred on the at paragraph, except in ded by the notification
so framed as to semire on any immunities or at the time of publica- ›nferred on that person greement in that behalf. ended, 18 of 1970, £ 3)
r or not any person is red on any person by
ate issued by the Chief stion shall be conclusive * 5. 2)
in the Colony and is ajesty's Government in governments of one or pears to the Governor aich the representatives their official staffs are
aid who are entitled to ist to be published in
ernor that any person uch immunities, amend of amendment or, if be published as aforesaid, er who is for the time poses of any enactment mmunities of an envoy by, and of the retinue of in envoy, and such of the
time being included in foresaid as if they were
ed under subsection (1) a statement of the date
from which the list or amendment takes or took effect; and the that any person is or was included or not included at any time ́ ́among the persons entitled to diplomatic immunities as representa- mes attending the conference or as members of the official staff of
· any such representative may, if a list of those persons has been so published, be conclusively proved by producing the Gazette con- aining the list or, as the case may be, the last list taking effect before that ume, together with the Gazette (if any) containing notices of the amendments taking effect before that time, and by showing that the name of that person is or was at that time included or not included in the said list.
4. (1) The Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, confer on judges and registrars of the International Court, and on suitors to that Court, and their agents, counsel and advocates, such immunities, privileges and facilities as may be required to give effect to any resolution of, or convention approved by, the General Assembly of the United Nations.
(2) In this section, the expression "the International Court" means the International Court of Justice set up under the Charter of the United Nations.
(Replaced, 3 of 1951, s. 3)
5. Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall be construed as precluding the Governor from declining to accord immunities or privileges to, or from withdrawing immunities or privileges from. nationals or representatives of any power on the ground that that power is failing to accord corresponding immunities or privileges to British nationals or representatives.
6. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the law applicable to the Colony, the law and custom relating to the immunities and privileges as to person, property or servants of sovereigns. diplomatic agents, or the representatives of foreign powers for the time being in force in England shall, in so far as the same is applicable mutatis mutandis, have effect and be enforced in the Colony.
7. (I) The Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, confer upon any person who satisfies him that he is—
(a) a senior officer of the Commonwealth Secretariat:
(ë) a citizen of a country mentioned in Schedule 3 to the
British Nationality Act 1981; and
(c) permanently resident outside Hong Kong,
and upon any member of his family, the immunities and privileges specified in Part I of the Second Schedule.
(2) The Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, confer › upon any person who satisfies him that he is-
Immunities and privileges of judges of and suitors to, the
International
Court of Justice.
Reciprocal treatmenL
Law of Colony relating to privileges of sovereigns
and others assumiiated to the law of England.
Immunities and privileges of officers of the Commonwealth Secretariat. (1948. a. 56.) 30 of 1982. a. 2. (19%) u. 61.)
Second Schedule.