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HO 964 Ed
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The United Nations.
[CAP. 190
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[Subsidiary]
G.N.A. 286/48.
THE UNITED NATIONS.
(Cap. 190, section 2).
[19th November, 1948.]
The Governor declares and provides and it is hereby declared and provided as follows-
PART I.
THE UNITED NATIONS.
A. THE ORGANIZATION.
1. The United Nations set up by the Charter signed at San Francisco on the 26th June, 1945, is an organization to which the Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance shall apply.
2. The United Nations shall have the legal capacity 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 United Nations 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 Her Majesty.
4. The United Nations 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 United Nations shall have exemption from taxes on the importation of goods directly imported by the organization for its official use in the Colony 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 Commerce and Industry may prescribe for the protection of the revenue.
6. The United Nations shall have exemption from prohibitions and restrictions on importation and 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.
7. The United Nations 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 the Colony), of any reduced rates applicable for the corresponding service in the case of press telegrams.
(Cap. 190.)
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