N2
[Subsidiary]
CAP. 190] The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
[1980 Ed.
8. 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 publications of the Organization directly imported by it, such exemption to be subject to compliance with such conditions as the Director of Trade, Industry and Customs may prescribe for the protection of the revenue.
9. The Organization shall have exemption from prohibitions and restrictions on 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.
10. The Organization shall have the right to avail itself, for telegraphic communications sent by it and containing only matter intended for publication by the press or for broadcasting (including communications addressed to or dispatched from places outside Hong Kong), of any reduced rates applicable for the corresponding service in the case of press telegrams.
PART III
REPRESENTATIVES
11. (1) Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Governments of members and associate members whom they represent, representatives of members and associate members to the General Assembly, the Management Committee or to any conference, meeting or other organ of the Organization shall enjoy-
(a) while exercising their functions as such and during their journeys to and from the place of meeting, immunity from personal arrest or detention and from seizure of their personal baggage and inviolability for all papers and documents;
(b) immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words spoken or written and things done or omitted to be done by them in their capacity as representatives.
(2) Where the incidence of any form of taxation depends upon residence, representatives shall not be deemed to be resident in Hong Kong during any period when they are present in Hong Kong for the discharge of their duties.
(3) For the purposes of the application of this Article the expression "representatives" shall be deemed to include, in addition to the representatives, the following members of their official staffs accompanying them as such representatives-