CONSULAR RELATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY) ORDER

CONSULAR RELATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES) (FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY) ORDER

CONSULAR RELATIONS (PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES)
(FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY) ORDER

(Cap. 259, section 4(1)

[4th February, 1972.]

1. This order may be cited as the Consular Relations (Privileges and
Immunities) (Federal Republic of Germany) Order.

2. The like exemption from dues and taxes as is accorded under
Article 32 in the First Schedule to the Ordinance to the residence of the
career head of a consular post shall be extended to the residence of a
career consular officer or a consular employee of the Federal Republic of
Germany of which the Federal Republic of Germany or any person acting
on its behalf is the owner.

3. (1) Paragraph 2 of Article 50 in the First Schedule to the
Ordinance (exemption from customs duties) shall be applied in regard to
consular employees of the Federal Republic of Germany who satisfy the
conditions set out in sub-paragraph (2) as if the words 'in respect of
articles imported at the time of first installation' were omitted.

(2) The conditions referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are that the
consular employee concerned

(a) is not a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies, a person
who is a British subject by virtue of section 2, 13
or 16 of the British Nationality Act 1948 or the British
Nationality Act 1965, or a British protected person within the
Meaning of the said Act of 1948; and

(b)does not carry on any private gainful occupation in Hong
Kong; and

(e) is not permanently resident in Hong Kong.

4. A consular bag exchanged between a consular officer of the
Federal Republic of Germany in Hong Kong and the Government, a
diplomatic mission or another consular post of the Federal Republic of
Germany shall be accorded the treatment which is accorded to a
diplomatic bag by paragraph 5 of the Third Schedule to the Ordinance.
L.N. 14/72. Citation. Exemption from dues and taxes in respect of consular residences. Exemption from customs duties. (1948 c. 56.) (1965 c. 34.) Consular bag to be accorded the same treatment as diplomatic bag.

L.N. 14/72. Citation. Exemption from dues and taxes in respect of consular residences. Exemption from customs duties. (1948 c. 56.) (1965 c. 34.) Consular bag to be accorded the same treatment as diplomatic bag.

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