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DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES ORDINANCE. (Chapter 190).

NOTIFICATION UNDER SECTION 2.

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) it is enacted :

THAT the Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, declare that the Ordinance shall apply to any Organization declared by Her Majesty by Order in Council made under the International Organizations (Immunities and Privileges) Acts, 1950, to be an organization of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Government or Governments of one or more foreign sovereign Powers are members :

THAT the Governor may, by notification in the Gazette, provide that any organization to which this section applies 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 the Ordinance, and shall also have the legal capacities of a body corporate:

THAT the Governor may, by notification in the Gasetto, confer on the representatives (whether of Governments or not) on any organ of the Organization and upon officers and servants of the Organization, the immunities and privileges set forth in Parts II and III of the said Schedule to the extent specified in the notification: and

THAT Part IV of the Schedule to the Ordinance shall have effect for the purpose of extending to the staffs or representatives and to the families of officers of the Organization any immunities and privileges conferred on the representatives or officers, except in so far as the operation of the said Part IV is excluded by the notification conferring the privileges and immunities:

AND WHEREAS the Universal Postal Union on the 5th day of April, 1949, deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations a notification that it accepted the standard clauSES of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities for the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and the said Convention there- upon became applicable to the Organization :