Explanatory note

This Order, which is made pursuant to the Consular Relations Act 1968, provides for according, in addition to the privileges accorded with respect to consular posts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and persons connected with them by Schedule 1 to the Act, exemption for certain consular employees from customs duties on articles for their personal use, or that of members of their families forming part of their households, imported throughout the period of their appointment. It gives effect to the provisions of an Exchange of Notes between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands which took place at The Hague on 19th October 1953 (Cmnd. 4350).