{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-privileges-and-immunities-polish-peoples-republic-order-1978/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-privileges-and-immunities-polish-peoples-republic-order-1978/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1028",
  "legislation_title": "The Consular Relations (Privileges and Immunities) (Polish People's Republic) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consular-relations-privileges-and-immunities-polish-peoples-republic-order-1978",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order, which is made pursuant to the Consular Relations Act 1968, provides, with respect to consular posts of the Polish People's Republic and persons connected with them, for according privileges and immunities additional to those accorded by Schedule 1 to the Act, namely—\n(i) relief from rates and taxes for the residences of certain members of a consular post;\n(ii) exemption from taxation for certain members of the service staff;\n(iii) exemption for certain consular employees and for members of their families forming part of their households from customs duties on articles for their personal use;\n(iv) diplomatic inviolability and immunity from jurisdiction for certain members of a consular post and members of their families forming part of their households;\n(v) diplomatic inviolability for consular premises and residences of consular officers;\n(vi) the same treatment in respect of consular communications as is accorded to communications of a diplomatic mission.\nIt gives effect to the relevant provisions of the Consular Convention between the United Kingdom and the Polish People's Republic signed at London on the 23rd February 1967 (Cmnd. 4790), as amended by the Protocol signed at London on the 16th December 1976 (Cmnd. 6740).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1028/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:32:32.720232+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}