19-MAR-1993 11:37
PROTOCOL DIVISION
+ 852 521 7621
P.01
香港布政司署
禮賓處
Our ref : PROT 4/1126/91
Deborah Barnes Jones
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Fax No: 002 44 71 270 3387
PROTOCOL DIVISION
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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
HONG KONG 19 March 1993
Dear Ms Barnes Jones,
1993.
EC Office in Hong Kong
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Ms Conrey
ECD (E)
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Ma Bemus Jones
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Thank you for your fax letter dated 16 March
As requested, I am enclosing a shorthand list of the privileges and immunities afforded to the Commonwealth Commissions and the consulates general in Hong Kong. These are based on the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR).
As you
know,
the EC has bid for P and I at the diplomatic/embassy level. (Whether this is because of a misunderstanding Or because the EC is trying to get the best possible deal I do not know.) Consular immunity is pitched at a lower level and the main limitations can be summarised as follows :
(a)
(b)
(c)
Inviolability of Premises.
Only the consular
premises are inviolable, not the residences of consular staff.
Inviolability of Persons.
Consular officers may be arrested in the case of a grave crime and pursuant to a decision by the competent judicial authority. / (They may only be imprisoned or have other forms of restriction placed on their personal freedom following execution of a judicial decision of final effect.)
Immunity from
and employees
Jurisdiction. Consular officers are immune from the jurisdiction of the receiving State only in respect of acts performed
the exercise of consular functions. Family members have no immunity from
HCD40/Jurisdiction.
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