International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) Act
(Chapter 145, Section 2)
International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (International Telecommunications Union) Order1
1   Note: The Government of the Republic of Singapore succeeded the International Telecommunications Union on 18th March 1966.
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G.N. No. S 302/1955

REVISED EDITION 1990
(25th March 1992)
[21st October 1955]
1.  This Order may be cited as the International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (International Telecommunications Union) Order.
A.   THE ORGANISATION
2.  The International Telecommunications Union (referred to in this Order as the Union) is an organisation of which the Government of the Republic of Singapore and the governments of foreign sovereign Powers are members.
3.  The Union shall have the legal capacities of a body corporate and, except in so far as in any particular case it has expressly waived its immunity, immunity from suit and legal process. No waiver of immunity shall be deemed to extend to any measure of execution.
4.  The Union shall have the like inviolability of official archives and premises occupied as offices as is accorded in respect of official archives and premises of an envoy of a foreign sovereign Power accredited to the Republic of Singapore.
5.  The Union 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.
6.  The Union shall have exemption from taxes on the importation of goods directly imported by the Union for its official use in Singapore or for exportation, or on the importation of any of the publications of the Union 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.
7.  The Union shall have exemption from prohibitions and restrictions on importation or exportation in the case of goods directly imported or exported by the Union for its official use and in the case of any publications of the Union directly imported or exported by it.
[G.N. No. S 302/1955]