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The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
[CAP. 190
THE ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY NOTIFICATION
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L.N. 331/80.
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(Cap. 190, section 2)
[21 November 1980.]
PART I
GENERAL
1. This notification may be cited as the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Notification.
2. For the purposes of this notification, the official activities of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (hereinafter referred to as the Organization) means its activities carried out in pursuance of its objectives as defined in the Constitution of the Organization, opened for signature at Bangkok on 1 April 1976 until 31 October 1976 and at New York thereafter, and includes its administrative activities.
PART II
THE ORGANIZATION
3. The Organization is an organization to which the International Organizations and Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance applies.
4. The Organization is an organization of which the Government or Governments of one or more foreign sovereign powers are members and of which the Government of Hong Kong is an associate member.
5. 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.
6. The Organization shall have the like inviolability of official archives and premises occupied as offices as is accorded in England in respect of the official archives and premises of an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to Her Majesty.
7. The Organization shall have the like exemption or relief from taxes and rates, other than taxes on the importation of goods, as is accorded in England to a foreign sovereign power.
(Cap. 190.)