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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 Immunitics of the Specialized Agencies to the Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative organization by Order in Council made on the 28th day of July, 1959, under the International Organizations (Immunities and Privileges) Act, 1950, by which said Order it was declared that the Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organization is an Organiza- tion 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 (Cap. 190). hereby declares and provides as follows-

PART I.

THE ORGANIZATION,

1. The Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (hereinafter referred to as the Organization) is an organization to which the Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance applics.

1. The Organization shall have 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 immunity shall be deemed to extend to any measure of execution.

3. The Organization 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 Organization 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 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

(Cap. 190).