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Consular Relations.
[1970 Ed.
to them by the receiving State. Those members of the families of members of the consular post and those members of the private staff who are themselves nationals of or permanently resident in the receiving State shall likewise enjoy facilities, privileges and immunities only in so far as these are granted to them by the receiving State.
SECOND SCHEDULE,
[ss. 4(1), 12(4) & 13.]
PROVISIONS FOR GIVING EFFECT TO OTHER AGREEMENTS.
1. The like exemption from dues and taxes may be extended to the residence of any member of a consular post as is accorded under Article 32 in the First Schedule to the residence of the career head of a consular post.
2. Paragraph 1 of Article 49 in that Schedule may be extended to members of the service staff.
3. Paragraph 2 of Article 50 in that Schedule may be applied as if it were among the Articles mentioned in paragraph 2 of Article 58 in that Schedule, as if the reference to consular employees included members of the service staff and also such members of the families of consular employees or of members of the service staff as form part of their households, and as if the words "in respect of articles imported at the time of first installation” were omitted.
4. Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Third Schedule (inviolability and immunity from jurisdiction and arrest of diplomatic agents and exemption from duty to give evidence) may be extended to members of a consular post and members of their families forming part of their households.
5. Paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule (inviolability and protection of mission) may be extended to consular premises; and paragraph 4 of that Schedule (inviolability of private residence) may be extended to the residences of consular officers. Paragraph 5 of the Third Schedule (freedom of communications) may be extended to the communications of a consular post.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
[s. 13.]
1. APPLIED ARTICLES OF THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS SIGNED IN 1961.
The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. The receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity.
2. (1) A diplomatic agent shall enjoy immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving State. He shall also enjoy immunity from its civil and administrative jurisdiction, except in the case of-
(a) a real action relating to private immovable property situated in the territory of the receiving State, unless he holds it on behalf of the sending State for the purposes of the mission;
(b) an action relating to succession in which the diplomatic agent is involved as executor, administrator, heir or legatee as a private person and not on behalf of the sending State;
(c) an action relating to any professional or commercial activity exercised by the diplomatic agent in the receiving State outside his official functions.