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(a) shall permit the export of the movable property of the deceased. with the exception of any such property acquired in the receiving State the export of which was prohibited at the time of his death; (6) shall not levy national, regional or municipal estate, succession or inheritance duties, and duties on transfers, on movable prop- erly the presence of which in the receiving State was due solely to the presence in that State of the deceased as a member of the consular post or as a member of the faundly of a member of the consular post.
ARTICLE $2,
Exemption from personal services and contributions.
The receiving State shall exempt members of the consular post and members of their families forming part of their households from all personal services, from all public service of any kind whatsoever, and from military obligations such as those connected with requisitioning, military contributions and billeting.
ARTICLE $3.
Beginning and end of consudar privileges and immunities.
I. Every member of the consular post shall enjoy the privileges and immunities provided in the present Convention from the moment he enters the territory of the receiving State on proceeding to take up his post or, if already in its territory, from the moment when he enters On his duties with the consular post,
1. Members of the family of a member of the ponsular post forming part of his household and members of his private staff shall receive the privileges and immunities provided in the present Convention from the date from which he enjoys privileges and immunities in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Article or from the date of their entry into the territory of the receiving State or from the date of their becoming a member of such family or private staff, whichever is the latest.
3. When the functions of a member of the consular post have come to an end, his privileges and immunities and those of a member of his family forming part of his bousehold or a member of his private staff shall normally cease at the moment when the person concerned leaves the receiving State or on the expiry of a reasonable period in which to do so, whichever is the sooner, but shall subsist until that time, even in case of armed conflict. In the case of the persons referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article, their privileges and immunities shall come to an end when they cease to belong to the household or to be in the service of a member of the consular post provided, however, that if such persons intend leaving the receiving State within a reasonable period thereafter, their privileges and immunities shall subsist until the time of their departure.
4. However, with respect to nots performed by a consular officer or a consular employee in the exercise of his functions, immunity from jurisdiction shall continue to subsist without limitation of time.
5. To the event of the death of a member of the consular post, the members of his family forming part of his household shall continue to enjoy the privileges and immunities accorded to them until they leave the receiving State or until the expiry of a reasonable period enabling them to do so, whichever is the sooner.
ARTICLE $4.
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Obligations of third States.
1. If a consular officer passes through or is in the territory of a third State, which has granted him a visa if a visa was necessary, while proceeding to take up or return to his post or when returning to the sending State, the third State shall accord to him all immunities provided for by the other Articles of the present Convention as may be required to ensure his transit or return. The same shall apply in the case of any member of his family forming part of his household enjoying such privileges and immunities who are accompanying the consular officer or travelling separately to join him or to return to the sending State.
2. In circumstances similar to those specified in paragraph 1 of this Article third States shall not hinder the transit through their territory of other members of the consular post or of members of their families forming part of their households.
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Third States shall accord to official correspondence and to other official communications in transit, including messages in code or cipher, the came freedom and protection as the receiving State is bound to accord under the present Convention. They shall accord to consular couriers who have been granted a visa, if a visa was necessary, and to cortsulac bags in transit, the same inviolability and protection as the receiving State is bound to accord under the present Conventian.
4. The obligations of thind States under paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article shall also apply to the persons mentioned respectively in those paragraphs, and to official communications and to consular bags, whose presence in the territory of the third State is due to force majeure.
ARTICLE $5.
Respect for the laws and regulations of the receiving State.
1 The convular premises shall not be used in any manner incom patible with the exercise of consular functions.
3. The provisions of paragraph 2 of this Article shall not exclude the possibility of offices of other institutions or agencies being installed in part of the building in which the consular premises are situated, provided that the premises assigned to them are separate from those used by the consular post. In that event, the said offices shall not, for the purposeS of the present Convention, be considered to form part of the consular premises.
ARTICLE 57.
Special provisions concerning private gainful occupation.
2. Privileges and immunities provided in this Chapter shall not be Accorded:
(a) to consular employees or to members of the service staff who carry on any private gainful occupation in the receiving State: (b) to members of the family of a person referred to in sub- paragraph (0) of this paragraph or to members of his private staff;
(e) to members of the family of a member of a consular post who themselves carry on any private gainful occupation in the receiv- ing State.
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