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International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act

(Chapter 145, Section 2)

International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education) Order

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G.N. No. S 149/1974

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[17th May 1974]

1. This Order may be cited as the International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education) Order.

A. THE ORGANISATION

2. The Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education (referred to in this Order as the College) is an organisation of which the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the governments of foreign sovereign Powers are members.

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

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

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

[G.N. Nos. S 149/74; S 331/74]