Hong Kong Regulations

THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL MARITIME CONSULTATIVE ORGANIZATION - PARAGRAPH 8

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 81 of 1999 s. 3 PART II

REPRESENTATIVES

(1) Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is
waived by the Government of the member whom they represent, representatives of
members of the Organization on any of its organs at meetings convened by it
shall enjoy-

   (a)  in respect of words spoken or written and all acts done by them in
        their official capacity, the like immunity from suit and legal process
        as is accorded to an envoy of a foreign power accredited to the
        Government of the People's Republic of China; (81 of 1999 s. 3)

   (b)  while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from
        the place of meeting, the like immunity from personal arrest or
        detention and from seizure of their personal baggage and the like
        inviolability for all papers and documents as is accorded to an envoy
        of a foreign sovereign power accredited to the Government of the
        People's Republic of China. (81 of 1999 s. 3)

(2) Where the incidence of any form of taxation depends upon residence, any
period during which representatives of members of the Organization on any of
its organs at meetings convened by it are present in Hong Kong for the
exercise of their functions shall, for the purpose of determining their
liability to taxation, be treated as not being a period of residence in Hong
Kong.

(3) Part IV of the First Schedule to the Ordinance shall not operate so as to
confer any immunity or privilege on the official staff of representatives of
members of the Organization other than alternates, advisers, technical experts
and secretaries of delegations. (L.N. 184 of 1992)

(4) Neither the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article nor
those of Part IV of the First Schedule to the Ordinance shall operate so as to
confer any immunity or privilege on any person as the representative of the
Central People's Government in Hong Kong or as a member of the official staff
of such a representative or on any person who is a Chinese national. (80 of
1982 s. 3; L.N. 184 of 1992; 81 of 1999 s. 3)