Diplomatic Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2017

Amendment of section 43 of Act of 1967

7. Section 43 of the Act of 1967 is amended, in subsection (1) (amended by section 5 of the Diplomatic Relations and Immunities (Amendment) Act 2006 ), by the substitution of “equivalent or having like effect to those conferred upon, or afforded in relation to, sending states, missions, or international organisations under the Vienna Convention, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, or the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialised Agencies or any other international agreement scheduled to this Act” for “(other than inviolability, exemptions, facilities, immunities, privileges or rights not conferred upon, or afforded in relation to, sending states or missions under the Vienna Convention)”, and the said subsection (1) as so amended is set out in the Table to this section.

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(1) The Government may, as respects an international judicial body or a semi-judicial body established under an agreement to which the State or the Government is or intends to become a party or an arbitration or conciliation board established by or on behalf of or for the purposes of an international organisation to which this Part applies, by order make provision as respects inviolability and exemptions, facilities, immunities, privileges and rights equivalent or having like effect to those conferred upon, or afforded in relation to, sending states, missions, or international organisations under the Vienna Convention, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, or the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialised Agencies or any other international agreement scheduled to this Act in relation to judges and registrars of the body, persons engaged in appearing as advocates or witnesses before the body or board or in performing duties assigned to them by the body or board and persons who are parties to a suit before the body or board or apply to the body or board in relation to the commencement of a suit or other proceedings before the body or board and their advisers.