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Statutory Instruments
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNITIES AND PRIVILEGES
Laid before Parliament in draft
Made
19th December 1984
Coming into Operation
20th December 1984
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th day of December 1984
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 10(1) of the International Organisations Act 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the 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 1 of the 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:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Inter-American Development Bank (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1984 and shall come into operation on the day after the day on which it is made.
2. The Inter-American Development Bank (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1976 shall be amended by the addition of a new Article as follows:-
"14. Officers and employees of the Bank shall enjoy, unless they are British citizens, British Dependent Territories citizens or British Overseas citizens or permanently resident in the United Kingdom:
(a)the like exemption from duties and taxes on the importation of furniture and personal effects (including one motor car each) which-
(i)at the time when they first enter the United Kingdom to take up their post, are imported for their personal use or for their establishment, and
(ii)were in their ownership or possession or which they were under contract to purchase immediately before they so entered the United Kingdom,
as in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 36 of the 1961 Convention Articles is accorded to a diplomatic agent; and
(b)exemptions whereby, for the purposes of the enactments relating to social security, including enactments in force in Northern Ireland-
(i)services rendered for the Bank by them shall be deemed to be excepted from any class of employment in respect of which contributions or premiums under those enactments are payable, but
(ii)no person shall be rendered liable to pay any contribution or premium which he would not be required to pay if those services were not deemed to be so excepted.".
G.I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
This Order confers exemptions from certain taxes and duties on importation and exemptions in respect of social security contributions on officers of the Inter-American Development Bank who are not British citizens, British Dependent Territories citizens or British Overseas citizens or permanently resident in the United Kingdom. It enables the United Kingdom to give effect to two Exchanges of Notes between Her Majesty's Government and the Inter-American Development Bank (Cmnd. 7567 and Cmnd. 8047).
