THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION

TERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION.

(Cap. 190, section 2).
LA

[9th September, 1955.1

His Excellency the Governor hereby declares and provides as
follows

A. THE ORGANIZATION.

1. The International Telecommunication Union (hereinafter referred
to as the Organization) is an organization to which the Diplomatic
Privileges Ordinance applies.

2. 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
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 im-
ported by it, such exemption to be subject to compliance with
such conditions as
Industry may
prescribe for the protection of the revenue.

6. The Organization shall have exemption from prohibitions and
restrictions on importation or exportation in the case of goods directly
imported or exported by the Organization for its official use and in the
case of any publications of the Organization directly imported or
exported by it.



7. The Organization shall have the right to avail itself, for
telegraphic communications sent by it and containing only matter
intended for publication by the press or for broadcasting (including
communications addressed to or dispatched from places outside Hong
Kong), of any reduced rates applicable for the corresponding service in
the case of press telegrams.





B. REPRESENTATIVES, OTHER THAN REPRESENTATIVES OF
HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT IN THE COLONY, ON
ORGANS OR COMMITTEES OF THE ORGANIZATION.

8. (1) Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity
is waived by the Governments whom they represent, representatives of
members at plenipotentiary and administrative conferences, on the
Administrative Council, on consultative Committees, or on any committee of
any of these bodies shall enjoy

(a)while exercising their functions as such and during their journeys to
and from the place of meeting, immunity from personal arrest or
detention and from seizure of their personal baggage and inviolability
for all papers and documents,

(b)immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words
spoken or written and things done or omitted to be done by them in
their capacity as representatives.

(2) Where the incidence of any form of taxation depends upon residence,
representatives shall not be deemed to be resident in Hong Kong during any
period when they are present in Hong Kong for the discharge of their duties.

(3) For the purposes of the application of this Article the expression
'representatives' shall be deemed to include, in addition to the representatives,
the following members of their official staffs accompanying them as such
representatives

Alternate representatives,

Advisers,

Technical experts,

Secretaries of Delegations,

and Part IV of the Schedule to the Ordinance shall not operate so as to confer
privileges or immunities on the staffs of representatives other than on those
persons falling within the abovementioned descriptions.

(4) The provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article
shall not confer any immunity or privilege on any person as the
representative of Her Majesty's Government in Hong Kong or as
a member of the stag of such representative or on any person
who is of- the. United Kingdom and Colonics.

C. HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

9. Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is
waived by the Organization, any officer of the Organization holding the office
of Secretary-General (including any





officer acting for him during his absence from duty) shall be ac-
corded in respect of himself, his spouse and his children under
the age of twenty-one, the like immunity from suit and legal
process, the like inviolability of residence and the like exemption
or relief from taxes, other than income tax, as is accorded to an
envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to Her Majesty,
his spouse and children, and exemption from income tax in respect
of emoluments received by him as an officer of the Organization.

D. OTHER OFFICIALS OF THE ORGANIZATION.

10. Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege
or immunity is waived by the Organization, officials of the Organi-
zation of any category specified by it shall enjoy-

(a)immunity from suit and legal process in respect of words
spoken or written and things done or omitted to be done
by them in the course of the performance of their official
duties;

(b)exemption from income tax in respect of emoluments
received by them as officers or servants of the Organiza-
tion.
G.N.A. 89/55. G.N.A. 98/55. (Cap. 190.) G.N.A. 98/55.

G.N.A. 89/55. G.N.A. 98/55. (Cap. 190.) G.N.A. 98/55.

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