PART VII

International Councils

32. —In this Part “the Council” means the Customs Cooperation Council established by the Convention done at Brussels on the 15th day of December, 1950.

33. —The Council shall have the legal capacity of a body corporate.

34. —The Council and its property and a person who is a representative of a member of the Council or an official of the Council and any person, being a spouse of such person or a member of his family dependent on him, and the property of such persons shall have and enjoy inviolability and exemptions, facilities, immunities, privileges and rights corresponding to those provided for in Parts II, III, IV and VI (as may be appropriate in each case) of the Agreement set out in the Fifth Schedule to this Act.

35. —Experts (other than officials or servants of the Council) performing missions for the Council shall have and enjoy such privileges, immunities and facilities as are necessary for the independent exercise of their functions during the period of their missions, including the time spent on journeys in connection with their missions. In particular, they shall have and enjoy—

(a) immunity from arrest or detention and from seizure of baggage;

(b) immunity from legal process in respect of words spoken or written or acts done by them in the performance of their missions aforesaid and within the limits of their authority;

(c) inviolability in respect of papers and documents.

36. —(1) The inviolability and the exemptions, immunities, privileges and rights of an official of the Council or any person being a spouse of an official or a member of his family dependent on him, or a person referred to in section 35 of this Act may be waived by the Council.

(2) The immunities and privileges of a person who is a representative of a member of the Council or any person, being a spouse of such representative or a member of his family dependent on him, may be waived by the Government of the member.

37. —The International Wheat Council established under the International Wheat Agreement of 1949 shall have the legal capacity of a body corporate.

38. —The International Sugar Council established under the International Sugar Agreement of 1953 shall have the legal capacity of a body corporate.