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Diplomatic Immunities and Privileges Act

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Arrangement of Sections

PART I - Diplomatic immunities and privileges

Immunities of foreign envoys and consular officers

1. Immunities of foreign envoys, etc.

2. Waiver of immunity of foreign envoys, etc.

3. Immunities of chief representative of a Commonwealth country.

4. Immunities of members of staff and families.

5. Consular immunity may be conferred by regulations.

6. Immunities of Commonwealth representatives attending conferences.

7. Waiver of immunity of Commonwealth representatives.

8. Reciprocal withdrawal of personal immunities.

9. Power to grant exemption from taxation to other governments, etc.

10. Personal immunities, etc., of Nigerian citizens and residents.

PART II

Immunities and privileges of international organisations and persons connected therewith

11. Immunities, etc., of certain international organisations, etc.

12. Power to confer immunity on certain persons.

13. Extent of privileges.

14. Immunities and privileges of representative attending international conferences.

15. Organisations and persons may waive immunity.

16. Reciprocal treatment.

PART III

Miscellaneous an supplemental

17. Provisions as to exemption from taxation.

18. Certificate of Minister.

19. Power of Minister to add to or vary list of Commonwealth countries.

20. Regulations.

21. Orders, etc., to be laid.

22. Interpretation.

23. Short title, application, repeals and savings.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Immunities and privileges of international organisations

SECOND SCHEDULE

Immunities and privileges of representatives, members of committees, senior officers, and persons on missions

THIRD SCHEDULE

Immunities and privileges of other officers and servants

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Immunities and privileges of official staff and of senior officers' families

FIFTH SCHEDULE

Notice and orders in council continued in operation

SIXTH SCHEDULE

Enactments repealed

An Act to consolidate and amend certain enactments relating to diplomatic immunities and privileges.

[27th December, 1962] [Commencement.]

PART I

Diplomatic immunities and privileges

Immunities of foreign envoys and consular officers

1. Immunities of foreign envoys, etc.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every foreign envoy and every foreign consular officer, the members of the families of those persons, the members of their official or domestic staff, and the members of the families of their official staff, shall be accorded immunity from suit and legal process and inviolability of residence and official archives to the extent to which they were respectively so entitled under the law in force in Nigeria immediately before the coming into operation of this Act.

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