Hong Kong Regulations

THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY - 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 immunity or privilege is
waived by the Government of the member state whom he represents, a
representative of a member state of the Agency 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 him in his
        official capacity, the like immunity from suit and legal process 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)

   (b)  while exercising his functions and during his journeys to and from the
        place of meeting, the like immunity from personal arrest or detention
        and from seizure of his 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 a representative to whom this Article applies is present
in Hong Kong for the exercise of his functions shall, for the purpose of
determining his 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 members of the official staff of a
representative to whom this Article applies 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)