Hong Kong Regulations

THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION - PARAGRAPH 8

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 81 of 1999 s. 3
B.    REPRESENTATIVES, OTHER THAN REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE CENTRAL PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG, ON ORGANS OR COMMITTEES OF THE
ORGANIZATION

(81 of 1999 s. 3)

(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- (G.N.A. 98 of 1955)

   (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" (代表) 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
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. (L.N. 184 of 1992)

(4) The provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article shall not
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 staff of such
representative or on any person who is a Chinese national. (80 of 1982 s. 3;
81 of 1999 s. 3)

"representatives" (代表)