| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1999/670 |
| Year | 1999 |
1999No. 670
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES
The Diplomatic Privileges (British Nationals) Order 1999
10thMarch1999
10thMarch1999
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of March 1999
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 6(1) of the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964( a) ("the 1964 Act") and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2(6) of the 1964 Act or otherwise in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows: -
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Diplomatic Privileges (British Nationals) Order 1999 and shall come into force forthwith.
Privileges of British Nationals
2. - (1) This Article applies to persons who are citizens of a country listed in Schedule 1 of this Order and who are also British nationals.
(2) If a person to whom this Article applies is a member of a mission of a country listed in Schedule 1 to this Order or is a private servant of such a member and in either case is a citizen of that country, then for the purposes of Article 38 of Schedule 1 to the 1964 Act the privileges and immunities admitted or, as the case may be, granted by the receiving State shall in relation to that person be construed as the privileges and immunities to which that person would be entitled under the 1964 Act if he were not a British national.
(3) In this Order, "British national" means a person who under the British Nationality Act 1981( b) and the British Nationality (Falkland Islands) Act 1983[ c] is a British citizen, a British Dependent territories citizen or a British Overseas citizen or who under the Hong Kong (British Nationality) Order 1986[ d] is a British National (Overseas).
Revocations
2. The Orders listed in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked.
A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brunei
Cameroon
Canada
Dominica
Fiji
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Republic of Cyprus
Republic of Ireland
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
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