Diplomatic Privileges.
[CAP. 190
The Governor declares and provides and it is hereby declared and provided as follows-
THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION.
A. The Organization.
1. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (hereinafter referred to as the Organization) is an organization to which the Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance shall apply.
2. The Organization shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate and, except in so far as in any particular case it has expressly waived its immunity, immunity from suit and legal process. No waiver of immunity shall be deemed to extend to any measure of execution.
3. The Organization shall have the like inviolability of official archives and premises occupied as offices as is accorded in respect of official archives and premises of an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to His Majesty.
4. The Organization shall have the like exemption or relief from taxes and rates, other than taxes on the importation of goods, as is accorded to a foreign sovereign power.
5. The Organization shall have exemption from taxes on the importation of goods directly imported by the Organization for its official use in Hong Kong or for exportation, or on the importation of any of the publications of the Organization directly imported by it, such exemption to be subject to compliance with such conditions as the Director of Commerce and Industry may prescribe for the protection of the revenue.
6. The Organization shall have exemption from prohibitions and restrictions on the importation or exportation in the case of goods directly imported or exported by the Organization for its official use and in the case of any publications of the Organization directly imported or exported by it.
[19th May, 1950].
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