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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-international-criminal-court-immunities-and-privileges-no-1-order-2006/article-16",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110705505",
  "legislation_title": "The International Criminal Court (Immunities and Privileges) (No. 1) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-international-criminal-court-immunities-and-privileges-no-1-order-2006",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived as set out in paragraph (3), the Deputy Registrar, the staff of the Office of the Prosecutor and the staff of the Registry, as necessary for the independent performance of their functions, shall enjoy:–\n(a) the like immunity from personal arrest or detention as is accorded to a diplomatic agent;\n(b) immunity from suit and legal process (even after they have left the service of the Court) in respect of acts, including words spoken or written, performed by them in the exercise of their official functions for the Court ;\n(c) the like inviolability for all official papers, documents and materials as is accorded to a diplomatic agent;\n(d) exemption from income tax in respect of the salaries and emoluments (excluding pensions and annuities) paid to them by the Court;\n(e) the like immunity from seizure of personal baggage as is accorded to a diplomatic agent;\n(f) exemption from inspection of personal baggage unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles the import or export of which is prohibited by the law or controlled by quarantine regulations in the United Kingdom;\n(g) the like exemption from duties (whether of customs or excise) and taxes on the importation, and re-exportation to their country of permanent residence, of articles which–\n(i) at or about the time when the Deputy Registrar, the member of staff of the Office of the Prosecutor or the member of staff of the Registry first entered the United Kingdom to take up that post of employment for the Court in the United Kingdom, are imported for his personal use, including articles intended for his establishment, and\n(ii) are articles which were in his ownership or possession, or which he was under contract to purchase, immediately before he entered the United Kingdom,\nas in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 36 of the 1961 Convention Articles is accorded to a diplomatic agent;\n(h) exemptions whereby, for the purposes of the enactments relating to national insurance and social security, including enactments in force in Northern Ireland,–\n(i) services rendered for the Court by the Deputy Registrar, member of staff of the Office of the Prosecutor or member of staff of the Registry shall be deemed to be excepted from any class of employment in respect of which contributions or premiums under those enactments are payable, but\n(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.\n(2) Sub-paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of paragraph (1) shall not apply to any person who is a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, a British National (Overseas) or permanently resident in the United Kingdom.\n(3) Privileges and immunities may be waived:–\n(a) in the case of the Deputy Registrar and the staff of the Registry, by the Registrar;\n(b) in the case of the staff of the Office of the Prosecutor, by the Prosecutor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}