International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation) Order

International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act

(CHAPTER 145, Section 2)

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G.N. No. S 302/1971

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[3rd December 1971]

1. This Order may be cited as the International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation) Order.

A. THE ORGANISATION

2. The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (referred to in this Order as the Organisation) is an organisation of which the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the governments of foreign sovereign Powers are members.

3. The Organisation shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate.

4. The property and assets of the Organisation shall enjoy immunity from legal process except in so far as in any particular case the Organisation has expressly waived its immunity.

5. The Organisation shall have the like inviolability of official archives as is accorded in respect of official archives of an envoy of a foreign sovereign Power accredited to the Government.

6. The Organisation shall have the like exemption or relief from taxes and rates, other than taxes on the importation of goods, as is accorded to a foreign sovereign Power.

7. The Organisation shall have exemption from taxes on the importation of goods directly imported by the Organisation for its official use in Singapore or for exportation, or on the importation of any of the publications of the Organisation directly imported by it, such exemption to be subject to compliance with such conditions as the Director-General of Customs and Excise may prescribe for the protection of the revenue.

8. The Organisation shall have exemption from prohibitions and restrictions on importation or exportation in the case of goods directly imported or exported by the Organisation for its official use and in the case of any publications of the Organisation directly imported or exported by it.

9. The Organisation shall have the right to avail itself, for telegraphic communications sent by it and containing only matter intended for publication by the press or for broadcasting (including communication addressed to or despatched from places outside Singapore) of any reduced rate applicable for the corresponding service in the case of press telegrams.

[G.N. No. S 302/1971]

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