{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-centre-for-medium-range-weather-forecasts-immunities-and-privileges-order-1975/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-centre-for-medium-range-weather-forecasts-immunities-and-privileges-order-1975/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/158",
  "legislation_title": "The European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-centre-for-medium-range-weather-forecasts-immunities-and-privileges-order-1975",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Government of the Member State whom they represent, representatives of Member States of the Centre shall enjoy:—\n(a) immunity from suit and legal process in respect of things done or omitted to be done by them in the exercise of their functions, except in the case of a traffic offence committed by a representative or in the case of damage caused by a vehicle belonging to or driven by him;\n(b) while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from the place of meetings convened by the Centre, the like immunity from personal arrest or detention as is accorded to a diplomatic agent, provided that a representative shall not enjoy such immunity if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that he is in the course of committing, attempting to commit, or has just committed an offence;\n(c) while exercising their functions and during their journeys to and from the place of meetings convened by the Centre, the like inviolability for all their official papers and documents as is accorded to a diplomatic agent.\n(2) Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not operate so as to confer any privilege or immunity on the official staff of representatives, other than alternate representatives.\n(3) Neither the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of this Article, nor those of Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Act, shall operate so as to confer any privilege or immunity on any person as the representative or alternate representative of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom or on any person who is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies.\n(4) Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not operate so as to confer any privilege or immunity on families of representatives or alternate representatives.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replaced",
      "affecting": "uksi/1976/216",
      "affecting_title": "The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (Immunities and Privileges) (Amendment) Order 1976"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/158/article/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:16:45.199172+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."
}