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governments of one or more foreign sovereign powers are members, the Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, declare that this Ordinance shall apply to such organization and-

(a) provide that any organization to which this section applies (hereinafter referred to as "the organization") shall, to such extent as may be specified in the notification, have the immunities and privileges set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Ordinance, and shall also have the legal, capacities of a body corporate;

(b) confer upon—

(i) any persons who are representatives (whether of governments or not) on any organ of the organ- ization or are members of any committee of "the organization or of an orgañ thereof;

(ii) such number of officers of the organization as may be specified in the notification, being paiders of such high offices in the organizati so specified; and

is may be

(iii) such persons employed on missions on behalf of the organization as may be so specified;

to such extent as may be specified in the notification, the immunities and privileges set out in Part 11 of the Schedule to this Ordinance;

(c) confer upon such other classes of officers and servants of the organization as may be specified in the notifica- tion, to such extent as may be so specified, the immunities and privileges set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Ordinance;

and Part IV of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall have effect for the purpose of extending to the staffs of such representa- tives and members as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph (b) of this subsection and to the families of officers of the organization any immunities and privileges conferred on the representatives, members or officers under that para- graph, except in so far as the operation of the said Part IV is excluded by the notification conferring the immunities and privileges:

Provided that the notification shall be so framed as to secure that there are not conferred on any person any immunities or privileges greater in extent than those which, at the time of publication of the notification, are required to be conferred on that person in order to give effect to any international agreement in that behalf."

3. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed Repeat and and replaced as follows--

"moni- Lies and privileges of judges maltors to,

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the Inter ontional Court of Justice.

replacement of section 4 of the

Ordinance.

4. (1) The Governor may, by notification in the principal Gazette, confer on judges and registrars of the Inter- national Court, and on suitors to that Court, and their agents, counsel and advocates, such immunities, privileges and facilities as may be required to give effect to any resolution of, or convention approved by, the General Assembly of the United Nations.

(a) In this section the expression "the Inter- national Court" means the International Court of Justice set up under the Charter of the United Nations."

4. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended as follows-

of the Schedule

principal Ordinamen.

(a) by the deletion of the heading to Part II and the substitu- to the

tion therefor of the following-

**IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES of REPRESENTATIVES, MEMBERS OF COMMITTEES, HIGH OFFICERS AND PERSONS ON Missions'';

(b) by the deletion of the heading to Part IV and the substi-

tution therefor of the following-

"IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES OF OFFICIAL STAFFS AND OF HIGH OFFICERS' FAMILIES";

(c) by the deletion of the words "the representative of a member government" appearing in the third line of paragraph 1 of Part IV and the substitution therefor of the following words-

"a representative on any organ of the organization or a member of any committee of the organization or of an organ thereof";

(d) by the addition of the words "or member" after the word "representative" appearing in the fourth line of paragraph I of Part IV.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 31st day of January, 1951.

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Deputy Clerk of Councils.