Article 17
This Article shall apply
to all civilian staff personnel who hold permanent administrative assignments with the Organisation and who are remunerated in accordance with the Organisation's established salary scales or, if paid by a Members State under Article 19 of the Agreement on the Status of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, National Representatives and International Staff, the scale fixed by that Member State; and
to all military personnel permanently attached for administrative service with the Organisation.
Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Chairman of the Council Deputies, all persons to whom this Article applies shall enjoy:—
immunity from suit and legal process in respect of things done or omitted to be done by them in their official capacity and within the limits of their authority; and
unless they are citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies, the like exemption from customs duties and taxes on the importation of articles which—
at or about the time when they first enter the United Kingdom to take up their posts as officers of the Organisation are imported for their personal use of that of members of their families forming part of their households, including articles intended for their establishment, and
are articles which were in their ownership or possession or that of such members of their families, or which they or such members of their families were under contract to purchase, immediately before they so entered the United Kingdom,
as in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 36 of the 1961 Convention Articles is accorded to a diplomatic agent.
exemption from customs duties and taxes on the importation of any motor vehicle imported by way of replacement of a motor vehicle in respect of which the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (b) of this Article were fulfilled, such exemption to be subject to compliance with such conditions as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise may prescribe for the protection of the Revenue.