THE ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY NOTIFICATION

THE ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY NOTIFICATION

ASIA-PACIFIC TELECOMMUNITY NOTIFICATION
(Cap. 190, section 2)
[21 November 1980.1

PART I

GENERAL

1. This notification may be cited as the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
Notification.

2. For the purposes of this notification, the official activities of the
Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (hereinafter referred to as the Organization)
means its activities carried out in pursuance of its objectives as defined
in the Constitution. of the Organization, opened for signature at
Bangkok on 1 April 1976 until 31 October 1976 and at New York
thereafter, and includes its administrative activities.

PART II

THE ORGANIZATION

3. The Organization is an organization to which the International
Organizations and Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance applies.

4. The Organization is an organization of which the Government or
Governments of one or more foreign sovereign powers are members and
of which the Government of Hong Kong is an associate member.

5. 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.

6. The Organization shall have the like inviolability of official
archives and premises occupied as offices as is accorded in England in
respect of the official archives and premises of an envoy of a foreign
sovereign power accredited to Her Majesty.

7. The Organization shall have the like exemption or relief from
taxes and rates, other than taxes on the importation of goods, as is
accorded in England to a foreign sovereign power.





8. 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
exemption to be subject to compliance with such conditions as of Trade,
Industry may prescribe for the protection of the revenue.

9. 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.

10. 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
communication cations addressed to or dispatched from places
outside Hong Kong), of any reduced rates applicable for the
corresponding service in the case of press telegrams.

PART III

REPRESENTATIVES

11. (1) Except in so far as in any particular case any, privilege or
immunity is waived by the Governments of members and associate
members whom they represent, representatives of members and
associate members to the General Assembly, the Management
Committee or to any conference, meeting or other organ of the
Organization 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 stalls
accompanying them as such representatives





Alternate representatives,

Advisers,

Technical experts,

Secretaries of Delegations,

and Part IV of the First 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 above-mentioned
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 staff of such representative or on any person who is
citizen of the United kingdom and Colonies

1 PART IV

HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE ORGANIZATION

12. Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or
immunity is waived by the Organization, the Executive Director shall be
accorded in respect of himself, his spouse and his children under the
age of twenty-one and the Deputy Executive Directors shall be accorded
in respect of themseleves 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 in England 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 them as officers of the Organization.

PART V

OTHER OFFICIALS, OF THE ORGANIZATION

13. Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or
immunity is waived by the Organization, officials of the Organization 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 Organization.
L.N. 331/80. (Cap. 190.)

L.N. 331/80. (Cap. 190.)

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