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DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES ORDINANCE. (Chapter 190).
NOTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 2.
WHEREAS Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom applied the provisions of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies to the International Atomic Energy Agency by Order in Council made on the 17th day of January, 1961, under the International Organizations (Immunities and Privileges) Act, 1950, by which said Order it was declared that the International Atomic Energy Agency is an Organization of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the governments of foreign sovereign Powers are members;
NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance, His Excellency the Governor (C«p. 190). hereby declares and provides as follows-
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THE AGENCY.
1. The International Atomic Energy Agency (hereinafter referred
to as the Agency) is an organization to which the Diplomatic Privileges (Cap. 190), Ordinance applies.
1. The Agency shall bave 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 im- munity shall be deemed to extend to any measure of execution.
3. The Agency shall have the like inviolability of official archives and premises occupied as offices as is accorded in respect of the official archives and premises of an envoy of a foreign sovereign Power accredited to Her Majesty.
4. The Agency 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 Agency shall have exemplion from taxes on the importa- tion of goods directly imported by the Agency for its official use in Hong Kong or for exportation, or on the importation of any publications of the Agency 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.