{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-sea-bed-authority-immunities-and-privileges-order-1996/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-sea-bed-authority-immunities-and-privileges-order-1996/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/270",
  "legislation_title": "The International Sea-Bed Authority (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-sea-bed-authority-immunities-and-privileges-order-1996",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Representatives shall enjoy immunity from suit and legal process with respect to acts performed by them in the exercise of their functions, except to the extent that the State which they represent expressly waives this immunity in a particular case.\n(2) Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not operate so as to confer any privilege or immunity on—\n(a) the official staff of a representative other than alternate representatives and advisers, or\n(b) the family of a representative.\n(3) Neither the preceding paragraphs of this Article nor Part IV of Schedule 1 to the Act shall operate so as to confer any privilege or immunity on any person as the representative of the United Kingdom or as a member of the official staff of such a representative or on any person who is a British citizen, a British Dependent Territories citizen, a British Overseas citizen, or a British National (Overseas).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 24.8.1997 as notified in the London Gazette dated 27.8.1997, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/270",
      "affecting_title": "The International Sea-Bed Authority (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/270/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:52:49.559565+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."
}