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Section 1

Diplomatic Privileges (Food And Agriculture Organisation) Order, para. 1 · Revised Edition 2020

8 Diplomatic Privileges and Consular Conventions President of the Council of the Organisation shall be accorded in respect of themselves, their spouses and children under the age of twenty-one, the like immunity from suit and legal process, the like inviolability of residence and the like exemption or relief from taxes as is accorded to an envoy of a foreign sovereign power accredited to Her Majesty’s Government in Belize, his spouse and children, including exemption from income tax in respect of emoluments received by them as officers of the Organisation. D. Persons Serving on Committees of or Employed on Missions on behalf of the Organisation Committee members. 11. Except in so far as in any particular case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Organisation, persons (other than officials of the Organisation) serving on committees of, or employed on missions on behalf of the Organisation shall enjoy– (a) while exercising their functions as such, and during their journey to and from the place of meeting, immunity from personal arrest or detention and from seizure of their personal baggage and inviolability of all papers and documents relating to the work of the Organisation; (b) immunity from legal process of every kind in respect of words spoken or written and all acts done by them in the exercise of these functions. Such immunity shall continue notwithstanding that the persons concerned are no longer employed on missions on behalf of the Organisation.
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