{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-arms-decommissioning-act-1997-immunities-and-privileges-order-1997/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2231",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997 (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-arms-decommissioning-act-1997-immunities-and-privileges-order-1997",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Staff of the Commission",
  "text": "Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Commission, and subject to sections 5 and 6 of the Act, the staff of the Commission shall enjoy:\n(a) immunity from suit and legal process in respect of things done or omitted to be done by them in the course of the performance of their official duties;\n(b) unless they are British citizens, British Dependent Territories citizens, British Overseas citizens, British Nationals (Overseas) or permanently resident in the United Kingdom, exemption from income tax in respect of the salaries and emoluments received by them as staff of the Commission, provided that nothing in this subparagraph shall be interpreted as precluding such salaries and emoluments from being taken into account for the purposes of assessing the amount of taxation to be applied to income from other sources.\n(c) unless they are British citizens, British Dependent Territories citizens, British Overseas citizens, British Nationals (Overseas) or permanently resident in the United Kingdom, exemptions whereby for the purposes of the enactments relating to social security, including enactments in force in Northern Ireland:—\n(i) services rendered for the Commission by them shall be deemed to be excepted from any class of employment in respect of which contributions under those enactments are payable, but\n(ii) no person shall be rendered liable to pay any contribution which he would not be required to pay if those services were not deemed to be so excepted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2231/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:56:49.035559+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."
}