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Ord. No. 17/70.

L.S.

CONSULAR RELATIONS

HONG KONG

No. 17 of 1970.

I assent.

Short title and commencement.

Application of Vienna Convention.

1968 c. 18, s. 1. First Schedule.

D. C. C. TRENCH,

Governor.

12th February, 1970.

An Ordinance to give effect in Hong Kong to the Vienna Conven- tion on Consular Relations; to enable effect to be given in Hong Kong to other agreements entered into by Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom concerning consular relations and to make further provision with respect to con- sular relations in Hong Kong between the United Kingdom and other countries and matters arising in connexion there- with; to restrict the jurisdiction of courts in Hong Kong with respect to certain matters concerning or arising on board certain ships or aircraft; to enable diplomatic agents and con- sular officers in Hong Kong to administer oaths and do notarial acts in certain cases; and for purposes connected with those matters.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Consular Relations Ordinance 1970 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2. (1) Subject to section 3 and to subsection (2) of section 4, the provisions set out in the First Schedule (being Articles or parts of Articles of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations signed in 1963) shall have the force of law in Hong Kong and shall for that purpose be construed in accordance with subsections. (2) to (9) of this section.

(2) In those provisions-

"authorities of the receiving State" shall be construed as including any police officer and any person exercising a power of entry to any premises under any enactment;

"grave crime" shall be construed as meaning any offence punish- able (on a first conviction) with imprisonment for a term that may extend to five years or with a more severe sentence; "Ministry for Foreign Affairs" shall be construed as meaning the

Foreign and Commonwealth Office;