International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act 1950
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1950 c. 14 |
International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act , 1950
(14 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 14
An Act to consolidate the Diplomatic Privileges (Extension) Acts, 1944 to 1950.
[12th July 1950]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Immunities, privileges and capacities of certain international organisations and persons connected therewith.
(1) This section shall apply to any organisation declared by Order in Council to be an organisation of which the United Kingdom or His Majesty's Government therein and one or more foreign sovereign Powers or the government or governments thereof are members.
(2) His Majesty may by Order in Council—
(a ) provide that any organisation to which this section applies (hereinafter referred to as ‘the organisation’) shall, to such extent as may be specified in the Order, have the immunities and privileges set out in Part I of the Schedule to this Act, and shall also have the legal capacities of a body corporate;
(b ) confer upon—
(i) any persons who are representatives (whether of governments or not) on any organ of the organisation or are members of any committee of the organisation or of an organ thereof;
(ii) such number of officers of the organisation as may be specified in the Order, being the holders of such high offices in the organisation as may be so specified; and
(iii) such persons employed on missions on behalf of the organisation as may be so specified;
to such extent as may be specified in the Order, the immunities and privileges set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Act;
(c ) confer upon such other classes of officers and servants of the organisation as may be specified in the Order, to such extent as may be so specified, the immunities and privileges set out in Part III of the Schedule to this Act;
and Part IV of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of extending to the staffs of such representatives and members as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b ) of this subsection and to the families of officers of the organisation any immunities and privileges conferred on the representatives, members or officers under that paragraph, except in so far as the operation of the said Part IV is excluded by the Order conferring the immunities and privileges:
Provided that the Order in Council shall be so framed as to secure that there are not conferred on any person any immunities or privileges greater in extent than those which, at the time of the making of the Order, are required to be conferred on that person in order to give effect to any international agreement in that behalf and that no immunity or privilege is conferred upon any person as the representative of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom or as a member of the staff of such a representative.
2 Publication of lists of persons entitled to immunities and privileges under preceding section.
(1) Where immunities and privileges are conferred on any persons by an Order in Council made under subsection (2) of the foregoing section, the Secretary of State—
(a ) shall compile a list of the persons entitled to immunities and privileges conferred under paragraph (b ) of that subsection, and may compile a list of the persons entitled to immunities and privileges conferred under paragraph (c ) of that subsection;
(b ) shall cause any list compiled under this subsection to be published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes; and
(c ) whenever any person ceases or begins to be entitled to the immunities and privileges to which any such list relates, shall amend the list and cause a notice of the amendment or, if he thinks fit, an amended list, to be published as aforesaid.
(2) Every list or notice published under the foregoing subsection shall state the date from which the list or amendment takes or took effect; and the fact that any person is or was included or not included at any time among the persons entitled to the immunities and privileges in question may, if a list of those persons has been so published, be conclusively proved by producing the Gazette containing the list or, as the case may be, the last list taking effect before that time, together with the Gazettes (if any) containing notices of the amendments taking effect before that time, and by showing that the name of that person is or was at that time included or not included in the said list.
3 Immunities and privileges of judges of, and suitors to, the International Court of Justice.
(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, confer on the judges and registrars of the International Court, and on suitors to that Court and their agents, counsel and advocates, such immunities, privileges and facilities as may be required to give effect to any resolution of, or convention approved by, the General Assembly of the United...
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