
PART I
1 
This Order may be cited as the 
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1982.
It shall come into operation on the date on which the 
Headquarters Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) enters
into force. The date shall be notified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast
Gazettes.
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(1) For the purposes of this Order, the official
activities of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (hereinafter referred
to as the Organisation) include its administrative activities.
(2) In this Order 
“the 1961 Convention Articles” means the Articles (being certain Articles of the 
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations signed in 1961
) which are set out in 
Schedule 1 to the Diplomatic Privileges
Act 1964;
PART II
3 
The Organisation is an organisation
of which Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Governments
of other sovereign Powers are members.
4 
The Organisation shall have the legal
capacities of a body corporate.
5 
Within the scope of its official activities,
the Organisation shall have exemption from taxes on income and capital gains.

6 
The Organisation shall have exemption
from duties (whether of customs or excise) and taxes on the importation of
goods imported by or on behalf of the Organisation and necessary for the exercise
of its official activities, such exemption to be subject to compliance with
such conditions as the Commissioners of Customs and Excise may prescribe for
the protection of the Revenue.
7 
The Organisation shall have exemption
from prohibitions and restrictions on importation or exportation of any publications
of the Organisation imported or exported by it within the scope of its official
activities.
8 
The Organisation shall have relief,
under arrangements made by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, by way
of refund of duty (whether of customs or excise) paid on imported hydrocarbon
oil (within the meaning of the 
Hydrocarbon Oil Duties Act 1979 or value added
tax paid on the importation of such oil which is bought in the United Kingdom
by the Organisation and necessary for the exercise of its official activities,
such relief to be subject to compliance with such conditions as may be imposed
in accordance with the arrangements.
9 
The Organisation shall have relief,
under arrangements made by the Secretary of State, by way of refund of car
tax and value added tax paid on the purchase of new motor cars of United Kingdom
manufacture necessary for the official activities of the Organisation, such
relief to be subject to compliance with such conditions as may be imposed
in accordance with the arrangements.
PART III
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(1) Except in so far as in any particular
case any privilege or immunity is waived by the Government which they represent,
representatives of members of the Organisation shall enjoy, while exercising
their functions and in the course of their journeys to and from the place
of meetings convened by the Organisation:
(a) immunity from suit and legal process
(even after the termination of their mission) in respect of acts, including
words written or spoken, done by them in the exercise of their functions,
except in the case of a motor traffic offence committed by a representative
or in the case of damage caused by a vehicle belonging to or driven by him;
and
(b) the like inviolability for all their
official papers and documents as is accorded to diplomatic agents.
(2) Part IV
of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not operate
so as to confer any privilege or immunity on the official staff of representatives,
other than alternate representatives.
(3) Part IV
of Schedule 1 to the Act shall not operate
so as to confer any privilege or immunity on any member of the family of a
representative or alternate representative.
(4) Neither the provisions of the preceding
paragraphs of this Article, nor those of Part
IV of Schedule 1 to the Act, shall operate
so as to confer any privilege or immunity on any person as the representative
or alternate representative of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom
or on any person who is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies.
PART IV
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The Executive Director and all officers
of the Organisation subject to its staff regulations, with the exception of
persons in the domestic service of the Organisation and those recruited locally
and assigned to hourly rates of pay, shall enjoy:
(a) as from the date on which the salaries
and emoluments received by them as officers of the Organisation become subject
to taxation by the Organisation for its benefit, exemption from income tax
in respect of such salaries and emoluments, provided that nothing in this
paragraph shall be interpreted as precluding such salaries and emoluments
from being taken into account for the purpose of assessing the amount of taxation
to be applied to income from other sources;
(b) unless they are citizens of the United
Kingdom and Colonies or permanently resident in the United Kingdom, the like
exemption from duties (whether of customs or excise) and taxes on the importation
of furniture and personal effects (including one motor car each) which—

(i) at the time when they first enter the
United Kingdom to take up their post, are imported for their personal use
or for their establishment, and
(ii) were in their ownership or possession
or which they were under contract to purchase immediately before they so entered
the United Kingdom,as in accordance with paragraph 1
of Article 36 of the 1961 Convention
 Articles is accorded to a diplomatic agent;
and
(c) unless they are citizens of the United
Kingdom and Colonies or permanently resident in the United Kingdom, and provided
that the Organisation has established or joined a social security scheme,
exemptions whereby for the purposes of the enactments relating to social security,
including enactments in force in Northern Ireland—
(i) services rendered for the Organisation
by them shall be deemed to be excepted from any class of employment in respect
of which contributions or premiums under those enactments are payable, but

(ii) no person shall be rendered liable to
pay any contribution or premium which he would not be required to pay if those
services were not deemed to be so excepted.
N.E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council
