{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-exemption-from-control-amendment-order-1977/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-exemption-from-control-amendment-order-1977/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/693",
  "legislation_title": "The Immigration (Exemption from Control) (Amendment) Order 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-exemption-from-control-amendment-order-1977",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order amends the Immigration (Exemption from Control) Order 1972 as follows.\nArticle 4 of that Order, which exempts certain persons from immigration control (except in relation to deportation), is amended so as to make it clear that persons on whom any immunity from suit and legal process is conferred by an Order in Council which was made under an enactment repealed by the International Organisations Act 1968 (c.48), but which continues to have effect by virtue of section 12(5) of that Act, are exempted. Article 4 is also amended so as to exempt members of the staff of the Commonwealth Secretariat who are not entitled to full diplomatic immunity, together with their families forming part of their households.\nArticle 3 of that Order exempts from immigration control consular officers and employees (and their families) in the service of the states listed in the Schedule as being those with which consular conventions have been concluded by Her Majesty. The Schedule is amended so as to add Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and Mongolia with which consular conventions have recently been concluded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/693/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:03:29.200023+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."
}